CVE Catalog

CVE-2001-1009

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Fetchmail (also known as fetchmail-ssl) before version 5.8.17 allows a remote malicious IMAP or POP/POP3 server to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly gain privileges via a negative index number in response to a LIST request.

Risk Assessment

The organization may be exposed to attacks that allow malicious servers to take control of the system by overwriting memory.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Fetchmail to version 5.8.17 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Fetchmail (aka fetchmail-ssl) before 5.8.17 allows a remote malicious (1) IMAP server or (2) POP/POP3 server to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly gain privileges via a negative index number as part of a response to a LIST request.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS