Fetchmail vulnerabilities
Christian Herdtweck discovered that Fetchmail incorrectly handled certain long log messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Fetchmail to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-36386) It was discovered that the Fetchmail SMTP client incorrectly handled certain status code messages. An attacker controlling a malicious server could possibly use this issue to cause Fetchmail to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-61962) Tristan Madani discovered that Fetchmail incorrectly handled
Read at Ubuntu Security Notices
- Vendor
- Canonical
- Product
- Ubuntu
- Exposure class
- Operating system
Why it ranks 40 (Notable)
- Product class: operating system
- Widely deployed vendor product (Canonical)
- Covered by 2 independent sources
- Vendor security advisory
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- Ubuntu Security Notices (ubuntu.com)
- CVE-2021-36386 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia
- CVE-2025-61962 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia
- CVE-2026-94184 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia
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