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CVE-2025-61962

fetchmail: Fetchmail denial of service

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 4, 2025

Updated · September 23, 2026

Description

When fetchmail receives a 334 reply from the SMTP server that does not contain the mandated blank after that response code, it will attempt reading from memory location 1, which will usually lead to a crash.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-142 · Improper Neutralization of Value Delimiters