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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2001-0819 json

A buffer overflow in Linux fetchmail before 5.8.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large 'To:' field in an email hea…

published 2001-12-06 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-0803

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.4%
EPSS 6.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A buffer overflow in Linux fetchmail before 5.8.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large 'To:' field in an email header.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2001-0819 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 5.2 Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0 Red Hat Linux 7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2001:103

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.