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fetchmail -- null pointer dereference in multidrop mode with headerless email

Description:

The fetchmail team reports:

Fetchmail contains a bug that causes an application crash when fetchmail is configured for multidrop mode and the upstream mail server sends a message without headers. As fetchmail does not record this message as "previously fetched", it will crash with the same message if it is re-executed, so it cannot make progress. A malicious or broken-into upstream server could thus cause a denial of service in fetchmail clients.

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portaudit: fetchmail -- null pointer dereference in multidrop mode with headerless email

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>