Summary
The remote host is missing an update to fetchmail
announced via advisory DSA 060-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20060-1
Insight
Wolfram Kleff found a problem in fetchmail: it would crash when processing emails with extremely long headers. The problem was a buffer overflow in the header parser which could be exploited.
This has been fixed in version 5.3.3-1.3, and we recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail package immediately.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2001-0819 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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