A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in fetchmail when built with NTLM support. A malicious or compromised mail server advertising NTLM authentication can send a crafted Type 2 challenge that causes fetchmail to write past a fixed stack buffer while building the NTLM authenticate response. This may lead to remote code execution depending on stack-frame layout, or to authentication failure or process termination under memory hardening.

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in fetchmail when built with NTLM support. A malicious or compromised mail server advertising NTLM authentication can send a crafted Type 2 challenge that causes fetchmail to write past a fixed stack buffer while building the NTLM authenticate response. This may lead to remote code execution depending on stack-frame layout, or to authentication failure or process termination under memory hardening.

Affected: openEuler:24.03-LTS-SP4: fetchmail

Fetchmail is a mail retrieval daemon that can download messages from POP3, IMAP, ODMR and ETRN-based stores, with SSL/TLS security including certificate verification, and pass downloaded mail to a local SMTP or LMTP server, or a message delivery agent such as maildrop. Security Fix(es):

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in fetchmail when built with NTLM support. A malicious or compromised mail server advertising NTLM authentication can send a crafted Type 2 challenge that causes fetchmail to write past a fixed stack buffer while building the NTLM authenticate response. This may lead to remote code execution depending on stack-frame layout, or to authentication failure or process termination under memory hardening.

Affects v5.0.8 through v6.6.6.(CVE-2026-94184)

Affected: Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: fetchmail, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: fetchmail, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: fetchmail, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: fetchmail, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: fetchmail, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: fetchmail

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in fetchmail when built with NTLM support. A malicious or compromised mail server advertising NTLM authentication can send a crafted Type 2 challenge that causes fetchmail to write past a fixed stack buffer while building the NTLM authenticate response. This may lead to remote code execution depending on stack-frame layout, or to authentication failure or process termination under memory hardening.

Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in fetchmail ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen.