Vulnerability in Sendmail

CVE-2006-1173

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.

EPSS: 0.052 (91.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Sendmail — versions 8.8.8, 8.9.0, 8.9.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References