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Gentoo: GLSA-200606-19 Moderate: Sendmail Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2006
Scroller Gentoo
Debian DLA-2023-0156 tackles a potential security vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server that could be exploited via crafted HTTP requests.
Faulty multipart MIME messages can cause forked Sendmail processes to crash.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-19 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Sendmail: Denial of Service Date: June 15, 2006 Bugs: #135141 ID: 200606-19

Synopsis ======= Faulty multipart MIME messages can cause forked Sendmail processes to crash.
Background ========= Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent (MTA).
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-mta/sendmail < 8.13.6-r1 >= 8.13.6-r1
========== Frank Sheiness discovered that the mime8to7() function can recurse endlessly during the decoding of multipart MIME messages until the stack of the process is filled and the process crashes.
Impact ===== By sending specially craft...

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