7.5
CVE-2002-1174
- EPSS 4.28%
- Published 11.10.2002 04:00:00
- Last modified 03.04.2025 01:03:51
- Source cve@mitre.org
- CVE-Watchlists
- Open
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.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
| Type | Source | Score | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPSS | FIRST.org | 4.28% | 0.877 |
| Source | Base Score | Exploit Score | Impact Score | Vector string |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nvd@nist.gov | 7.5 | 10 | 6.4 |
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.