CVE-2005-4348

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2005-12-19
Bugzilla:
1617856: CVE-2005-4348 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

fetchmail before 6.3.1 and before 6.2.5.5, when configured for multidrop mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by sending messages without headers from upstream mail servers.

Find out more about CVE-2005-4348 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. An update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to correct this issue:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html

This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (fetchmail) RHSA-2007:0018 2007-01-31
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (fetchmail) RHSA-2007:0018 2007-01-31
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (fetchmail) RHSA-2007:0018 2007-01-31

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