CVE-2006-5974

Published: 31 December 2006

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
fetchmail Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Not vulnerable
	edgy	Not vulnerable
	feisty	Released (6.3.6-1ubuntu2)
	upstream	Needs triage

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5974
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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