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USN-9013-1: Fetchmail vulnerabilities

Severity not listed 3 CVEs Published Nov 9, 2026 at 5:17 PM UTC

Summary

Christian Herdtweck discovered that Fetchmail incorrectly handled certain long log messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Fetchmail to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-36386)

It was discovered that the Fetchmail SMTP client incorrectly handled certain status code messages. An attacker controlling a malicious server could possibly use this issue to cause Fetchmail to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-61962)

Tristan Madani discovered that Fetchmail incorrectly handled certain NTLM authentication challenges. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Fetchmail to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service. (CVE-2026-94184)

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CVEs in this advisory 3

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