{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2711","details":"fetchmail 6.3.8 and earlier, when running in -v -v (aka verbose) mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and persistent mail failure) via a malformed mail message with long headers, which triggers an erroneous dereference when using vsnprintf to format log messages.","modified":"2026-09-22T06:47:27.194603289Z","published":"2008-06-16T21:41:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2008-2711"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2711"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"fetchmail","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/fetchmail?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.3.9~rc2-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"unimportant"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2711.json"}},{"package":{"name":"fetchmail","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/fetchmail?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.3.9~rc2-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"unimportant"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2711.json"}},{"package":{"name":"fetchmail","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/fetchmail?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.3.9~rc2-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"unimportant"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2711.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}