DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1174

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1174

    Published: 11 Oct 2002Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2002-1174

    Summary:

    Details: Buffer overflows in Fetchmail 6.0.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) long headers that are not properly processed by the readheaders function, or (2) via long Received: headers, which are not properly parsed by the parse_received function.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2002-1174

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: fetchmail

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/fetchmail?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6.1.0-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High