CVE-2005-2335: Fetchmail

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the POP3 client in Fetchmail before 6.2.5.2 allows remote POP3 servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long UIDL responses. NOTE: a typo in an advisory accidentally used the wrong CVE identifier for the Fetchmail issue. This is the correct identifier.

Affected products

• Fetchmail Fetchmail: up to and including 6.2.5.1; 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 2005-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.