Security Advisory

CVE-2002-1175

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-10-01 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 03:19:27

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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