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, 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 |
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fetchmail (PTS) | bullseye | 6.4.16-4+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 6.4.37-1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 6.4.39-1 | vulnerable |
| sid | 6.5.6-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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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)