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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1038 Date: 2005-08-15
Title: RHE3 Fetchmail Buffer Overflow via Long UIDL Responses
Description: Buffer overflow in the POP3 client in Fetchmail before 6.2.5.2 allows remote POP3 servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long UIDL responses. NOTE: a typo in an advisory accidentally used the wrong CVE identifier for the Fetchmail issue. This is the correct identifier.
Version: 1 Class: vulnerability
Status: ACCEPTED Reference(s): CVE-2005-2335
Family: unix
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Product(s): fetchmail
Definition Synopsis:

OVAL is CVE Compatible