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medium 5.0

CVE-2005-2335 json

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…

published 2005-07-27 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-2336

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.9%
EPSS 5.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • fetchmail Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.2.5-16

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2335

  • fetchmail RHEL 3 6.2.0-3.el3.2
  • fetchmail RHEL 4 6.2.5-6.el4.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:640

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-2005-2335 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 fetchmail 6.2.0-3.el3.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 fetchmail 6.2.0-3.el3.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 fetchmail 6.2.5-6.el4.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 fetchmail 6.2.5-6.el4.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 fetchmail 6.2.0-3.el3.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 fetchmail 6.2.5-6.el4.2
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 fetchmail 6.2.0-3.el3.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 fetchmail 6.2.5-6.el4.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:640

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

5.88% 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 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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.