CVE-2002-1174 — HIGH severity vulnerability (Buffer overflows in Fetchmail 6.0.0 and earlier allow remote)
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.
| CVE ID | CVE-2002-1174 |
|---|---|
| Severity | HIGH |
| CVSS score | 7.5 |
| CVSS vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| CWE | CWE-119 |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2002-10-11 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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