CVE-2003-0688 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2003-0688 at MITRE

Description

The DNS map code in Sendmail 8.12.8 and earlier, when using the "enhdnsbl" feature, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via an invalid DNS response that causes Sendmail to free incorrect data.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

SuSE-SA:2003:035, published Tuesday, Aug 26th 2003 19:00 MEST

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:26:20 2013
CVE page last modified: Wed Mar 26 11:13:59 2025