Sendmail Headers Prescan Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:8674

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Sendmail Headers Prescan Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 8674
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 12 1998 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 12 1998 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to Michal Zalewski.
Vulnerable: Sendmail Consortium Sendmail 8.9.2
Sendmail Consortium Sendmail 8.9.1
Sendmail Consortium Sendmail 8.9 .0
Sendmail Consortium Sendmail 8.8.8
+ Compaq Tru64 4.0 g PK3 (BL17)
 + Compaq Tru64 4.0 f PK7 (BL18)
 + SGI IRIX 6.5.6
+ SGI IRIX 6.5.5
+ SGI IRIX 6.5.4
+ SGI IRIX 6.5.3
+ SGI IRIX 6.5.2
+ SGI IRIX 6.5.1
+ SGI IRIX 6.5
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

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Sendmail Headers Prescan Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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