CVE-2002-0146: Fetchmail

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

fetchmail email client before 5.9.10 does not properly limit the maximum number of messages available, which allows a remote IMAP server to overwrite memory via a message count that exceeds the boundaries of an array.

Affected products

• Fetchmail Fetchmail: up to and including 5.9.8; version 4.5.1 only; version 4.5.2 only; version 4.5.3 only; version 4.5.4 only; version 4.5.5 only; …

Published 2002-06-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.