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TITLE:
Fetchmail Large Header Processing Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30742

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30742/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Fetchmail 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/370/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Fetchmail, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when printing overly
large e-mail headers (over 2048 bytes) and can be exploited to crash
the application.

Successful exploitation requires that Fetchmail is started with high
verbosity (two or more "-v" arguments are used).

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 6.3.9.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.3.9 as soon as available or apply patch for
version 6.3.8. Please see vendor's advisory for more details.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Gunter Nau.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt

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