oss-security - Re: CVE request: fetchmail 4.6.3...6.3.16 DoS in -v -v mode in multibyte locales on invalid input

Message-ID: <87hbn7zczt.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:19:18 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: fetchmail 4.6.3...6.3.16 DoS in -v -v mode in multibyte locales on invalid input

* Matthias Andree:

> Type:		malloc() Buffer overrun with printable characters

Is this the right summary?  It sounds like a heap buffer overflow, but
based on the description, I think it's just an infinite loop
allocating lots of memory.

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