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CVE-2002-1175

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1175 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Fetchmail versions 6.0.0 and earlier. A malformed DNS packet from a malicious server can cause the getmxrecord function to read beyond expected boundaries, leading to a crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low complexity, resulting in a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0199 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 8.0
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2002-1175Moderate

security flaw

Sep 29, 2002

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
marc.info
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2002-215.html
debian.org / security/2002/dsa-171
iss.net / security_center/static/10203.php
Vendor Advisory
linux-mandrake.com / en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-063.php
PatchVendor Advisory
linuxsecurity.com / advisories/other_advisory-2402.html
securityfocus.com / bid/5826