CVE-2006-4434

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Sendmail before 8.13.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long "header line", which causes a previously freed variable to be referenced. NOTE: the original developer has disputed the severity of this issue, saying "The only denial of service that is possible here is to fill up the disk with core dumps if the OS actually generates different core dumps (which is unlikely)... the bug is in the shutdown code (finis()) which leads directly to exit(3), i.e., the process would terminate anyway, no mail delivery or receiption is affected."

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2006-4422

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3994

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3393

http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.13.8.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19714

http://www.osvdb.org/28193

http://www.openbsd.org/errata38.html#sendmail3

http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#sendmail3

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_21_sr.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:156

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1164

http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-August/000999.html

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102664-1

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016753

http://secunia.com/advisories/22369

http://secunia.com/advisories/21749

http://secunia.com/advisories/21700

http://secunia.com/advisories/21696

http://secunia.com/advisories/21641

http://secunia.com/advisories/21637

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS