CVE-2006-1173

Summary

CVECVE-2006-1173
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-06-07 23:06:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-18 16:31:00 UTC
DescriptionSendmail 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.10 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.10.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.10.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.0 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.3 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.4 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.5 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.6 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.7 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta10 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta12 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta16 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta5 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta7 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.0 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.10 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.11 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.3 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.4 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.5 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.6 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.7 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.8 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.9 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.0 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.1.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.3 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.4 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.5 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.8.8 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.0 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.3 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.10 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.10.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.10.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.0 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.3 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.4 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.5 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.6 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.7 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta10 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta12 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta16 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta5 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta7 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.0 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.10 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.11 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.3 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.4 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.5 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.6 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.7 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.8 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.9 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.0 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.1.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.3 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.4 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.13.5 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.8.8 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.0 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.3 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail All All All All

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