CVE-2006-5974

Name	CVE-2006-5974
Description	fetchmail 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, when refusing a message delivered via the mda option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL pointer dereference when calling the (1) ferror or (2) fflush functions.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
fetchmail (PTS)	jessie	6.3.26-1	fixed
	stretch	6.3.26-3	fixed
	buster	6.4.0~beta4-3+deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye	6.4.16-4+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm	6.4.37-1	fixed
	sid, trixie	6.4.39-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
fetchmail	source	sarge	(not affected)
fetchmail	source	(unstable)	6.3.6-1	low

[sarge] - fetchmail <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)