>> Sendmail Multipart MIME Message Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : Sendmail Multipart MIME Message Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2351 CVE ID : CVE-2006-1173
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-06-15
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Sendmail, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error in the MIME 8-bit to 7-bit "mime8to7()" conversion routine that does not properly handle malformed MIME messages, which could be exploited by attackers to exhaust the per-process stack space memory available and cause that process to abort.
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