| Name | CVE-2025-61962 |
| Description | In fetchmail before 6.5.6, the SMTP client can crash when authenticating upon receiving a 334 status code in a malformed context. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1117136 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| fetchmail (PTS) | bullseye | 6.4.16-4+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 6.4.37-1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 6.4.39-1 | vulnerable |
| forky | 6.6.0-1 | fixed |
| sid | 6.6.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| fetchmail | source | (unstable) | 6.5.6-1 | | | 1117136 |
Notes
[trixie] - fetchmail <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - fetchmail <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - fetchmail <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2025-01.txt
Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/commit/4c3cebfa4e659fb778ca2cae0ccb3f69201609a8 (6.5.6)
Followup: https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/commit/3c9e49d70e5d958f10b94fc58b3c5046f87cff7a (6.5.7)