CVE-2010-0562
The sdump function in sdump.c in fetchmail 6.3.11, 6.3.12, and 6.3.13, when running in verbose mode on platforms for which char is signed, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an SSL X.509 certificate containing non-printable characters with the high bit set, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow during escaping.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 2.5% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0593)
- Published
- February 8, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0593 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fetchmail / fetchmail
- fetchmail / fetchmail
- fetchmail / fetchmail
References
- http://mknod.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/BRANCH_6-3/fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt
- http://osvdb.org/62114
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38391(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:037
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38088
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023543
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0296(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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