National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1173

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#146718

Name: VU#146718

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/146718

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.sendmail.com/security/advisories/SA-200605-01.txt.asc

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.sendmail.com/security/advisories/SA-200605-01.txt.asc

External Source: BID

Name: 18433

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18433

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 102460

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102460-1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20473

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20473

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 15779

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/15779

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-526

Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-526

External Source: XF

Name: sendmail-multipart-mime-dos(27128)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27128

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-3135

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3135

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-2798

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2798

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-2390

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2390

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-2389

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2389

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-2388

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2388

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-2351

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2351

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-2189

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2189

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBUX02124

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/442939/100/0/threaded

External Source: HP

Name: SSRT061159

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/442939/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060721 rPSA-2006-0134-1 sendmail sendmail-cf

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/440744/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060624 Re: Sendmail MIME DoS vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/438330/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060621 Re: Sendmail MIME DoS vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/438241/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060620 Sendmail MIME DoS vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/437928/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2006:0515

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0515.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 26197

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/26197

External Source: OPENBSD

Name: [3.8] 008: SECURITY FIX: June 15, 2006

Hyperlink:http://www.openbsd.org/errata38.html#sendmail2

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:104

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:104

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200606-19

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-19.xml

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.fortinet.com/FortiGuardCenter/advisory/FG-2006-18.html

Hyperlink:http://www.fortinet.com/FortiGuardCenter/advisory/FG-2006-18.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2006-5.shtml

Hyperlink:http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2006-5.shtml

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1155

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1155

External Source: AIXAPAR

Name: IY85930

Hyperlink:http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY85930&apar=only

External Source: AIXAPAR

Name: IY85415

Hyperlink:http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY85415&apar=only

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-148.htm

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-148.htm

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2006-166-01

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.631382

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016295

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016295

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21647

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21647

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21612

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21612

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21327

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21327

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21160

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21160

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21042

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21042

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20782

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20782

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20726

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20726

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20694

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20694

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20684

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20684

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20683

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20683

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20679

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20679

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20675

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20675

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20673

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20673

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20654

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20654

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20651

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20651

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20650

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20650

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20641

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20641

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11253

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11253

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2006:032

Hyperlink:http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0006.html

External Source: HP

Name: SSRT061135

Hyperlink:http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00692635

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBTU02116

Hyperlink:http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00692635

External Source: SGI

Name: 20060602-01-U

Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060602-01-U.asc

External Source: SGI

Name: 20060601-01-P

Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060601-01-P

External Source: FREEBSD

Name: FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail.asc

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11253

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11253