CVE catalog

CVE-2002-1174

fetchmail: CVE-2002-1174

[CVE catalog]

Severity
Medium
Published
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
4.73% · Oct 25, 2026

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.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debianfetchmailsid6.6.9-1fixed
Debianfetchmailforky6.6.9-1fixed
Debianfetchmailtrixie6.4.39-1fixed
Debianfetchmailbookworm6.4.37-1fixed

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debianfetchmailsourcesid6.1.0-1not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported
Debianfetchmailsourceforky6.1.0-1not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported
Debianfetchmailsourcetrixie6.1.0-1not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported
Debianfetchmailsourcebookworm6.1.0-1not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported

OpenFactory catalog packages

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • [fetchmail]Fixed
    Details (2)

    • 6.4.37-1 · amd64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 6.1.0-1

      dsa · fetchmail · debian · bookworm; dsa · fetchmail · debian · 12

    • 6.4.37-1 · arm64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 6.1.0-1

      dsa · fetchmail · debian · bookworm; dsa · fetchmail · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

  • [fetchmail]Fixed

    Source package: [fetchmail]

    Details (2)

    • 6.4.39-1 · amd64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 6.1.0-1

      dsa · fetchmail · debian · 13

    • 6.4.39-1+b2 · arm64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 6.1.0-1

      dsa · fetchmail · debian · 13

Observed:

References

[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX]