fetchmail -- potential crash when authenticating to SMTP server

2025-10-03 · CVE-2025-61962 · VuXML entry

Matthias Andree reports: fetchmail's SMTP client, when configured to authenticate, is susceptible to a protocol violation where, when a trusted but malicious or malfunctioning SMTP server responds to an authentication request with a "334" code but without a following blank on the line, it will attempt to start reading from memory address 0x1 to parse the server's SASL challenge. This address is constant and not …

Affected versions

• fetchmail >= 5.9.9 < 6.5.6

By system

1 still vulnerable, 1 fixed. Where VuXML applies (FreeBSD, DragonFly, FreeBSD's derivatives) a port is vulnerable while its version is in a range; pkgsrc says itself whether it lists a CVE of this advisory; OpenBSD and MidnightBSD keep no list this site reads, so their row is only an estimate: FreeBSD's ranges applied to upstream's version.