Sendmail before 8.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial...
Vulnerability Description
Sendmail before 8.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via deeply nested, malformed multipart MIME messages that exhaust the stack during the recursive mime8to7 function for performing 8-bit to 7-bit conversion, which prevents Sendmail from delivering queued messages and might lead to disk consumption by core dump files.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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References
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY85415&apar=only
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00692635
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1155
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata38.html#sendmail2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20684
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442939/100/0/threaded
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2388
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20726
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11253
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2351
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21327
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0515.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2389
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21647
- http://www.fortinet.com/FortiGuardCenter/advisory/FG-2006-18.html
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-526
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20651
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20683
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20650
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-148.htm
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20782
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3135
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016295
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20694
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20473
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2189
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440744/100/0/threaded
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060601-01-P
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2798
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102460-1
- http://www.sendmail.com/security/advisories/SA-200605-01.txt.asc
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060602-01-U.asc
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:104
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27128
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20673
- http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2006-5.shtml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438241/100/0/threaded
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21612
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20654
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2390
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.631382
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-19.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18433
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20675
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0006.html
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail.asc
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437928/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442939/100/0/threaded
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/146718
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00692635
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15779
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20641
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20679
- http://www.osvdb.org/26197
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21042
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21160
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY85930&apar=only
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438330/100/0/threaded
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