CVE-2002-1175

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2002-09-29
Bugzilla:
1616857: CVE-2002-1175 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The getmxrecord function in Fetchmail 6.0.0 and earlier does not properly check the boundary of a particular malformed DNS packet from a malicious DNS server, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) when Fetchmail attempts to read data beyond the expected boundary.

Find out more about CVE-2002-1175 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Linux 7.0 RHSA-2002:215 2002-10-07
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2002:216 2002-10-07
Red Hat Linux 7.1 RHSA-2003:155 2003-04-24
Red Hat Linux 7.1 RHSA-2002:215 2002-10-07
Red Hat Linux 7.3 RHSA-2002:215 2002-10-07
Red Hat Linux 6.2 RHSA-2002:215 2002-10-07
Red Hat Linux 8.0 RHSA-2002:215 2002-10-07
Red Hat Linux 7.2 RHSA-2002:215 2002-10-07

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