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Title	Fetchmail Verbose Mode Large Log Messages Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Published	2008-06-13-12:00AM
Updated	2008-06-30-03:10PM
Class	Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE	CVE-2008-2711
Remote	Yes
Local	No
Credit	Matthias Andree reported this issue. Petr Uzel, Petr Cerny, and Gunter Nau are credited with discovering and researching the problem.
Vulnerable	S.u.S.E. openSUSE 10.3 RedHat Fedora 9 0 RedHat Fedora 8 0 MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2008.1 x86_64 MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2008.1 MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2008.0 x86_64 MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2008.0 MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2007.1 x86_64 MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2007.1 MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 4.0 x86_64 MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0 x86_64 MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0 MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 4.0 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.8 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.7 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.6 rc3 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.6 rc2 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.6 rc1 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.6 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.5 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.4 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.3 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.2 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.1 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3 Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.2.5 Fetchmail Fetchmail 4.6.8 Fetchmail Fetchmail 4.6.7
Not Vulnerable	Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.9
Code	An attacker may trigger this issue by constructing a specially crafted email message and enticing an unsuspecting victim to interact with the application in verbose mode.
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