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CVE-2008-7258
medium
Description
The standardise function in Anibal Monsalve Salazar sSMTP 2.61 and 2.62 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application exit) via an e-mail message containing a long line that begins with a . (dot) character. NOTE: CVE disputes this issue because it is solely a usability problem for senders of messages with certain long lines, and has no security impact
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-7258
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ssmtp/+bug/282424
http://secunia.com/advisories/41009
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/ssmtp/2.62-3/345780-standardise-bufsize
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128077707318085&w=2
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045422.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045407.html