CVE-2006-1173 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-1173 at MITRE

Description

Sendmail 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.

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

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 173998 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:032, published Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:53:54 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:15:22 2023