| Name | CVE-2006-5974 |
| Description | fetchmail 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, when refusing a message delivered via the mda option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL pointer dereference when calling the (1) ferror or (2) fflush functions. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| fetchmail (PTS) | bullseye | 6.4.16-4+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.4.37-1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 6.4.39-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fetchmail | source | sarge | (not affected) | |||
| fetchmail | source | (unstable) | 6.3.6-1 | low |
[sarge] - fetchmail <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)