CVE-2021-36386
fetchmail: DoS or information disclosure when logging long messages
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · July 28, 2021
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
A flaw was found in fetchmail. The flaw lies in how fetchmail when running in verbose mode using the -v flag tries to log long messages that are created from long headers. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to cause a Denial of Service attack or crash. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data availability. This flaw was earlier identified by CVE-2008-2711 and fixed, however it recently got reintroduced due to a code refactoring issue. The current bug fix applies a different approach than the earlier one.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-665 · Improper Initialization