The remote host is missing an update to sendmail announced via advisory DSA 257-1. Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force found a bug in the header parsing routines of sendmail that could overflow a buffer when encountering addresses with very long comments, affecting mail-servers that do not deliver the email as well
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 28 |
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![]() | AIX 5.1 : IY40501 | 1 Sep 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Sendmail headers.c crackaddr Function Address Field Handling Remote Overflow | 3 Mar 200300:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDKSA-2003:028) | 31 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Debian DSA-257-1 : sendmail - remote exploit | 29 Sep 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 2.1 : sendmail (RHSA-2003:074) | 6 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | HP-UX PHNE_29526 : s700_800 11.04 (VVOS) sendmail(1m) 8.9.3 patch | 16 Feb 200500:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Sendmail 8.8.8 - 8.12.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Bypass, OF) | 5 Mar 200300:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | HP-UX PHNE_28409 : s700_800 11.22 sendmail(1m) 8.11.1 patch | 16 Feb 200500:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | HP-UX PHNE_35484 : s700_800 11.11 sendmail(1M) 8.9.3 patch | 25 Sep 200700:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | HP-UX PHNE_35483 : s700_800 11.00 sendmail(1M) 8.9.3 patch | 25 Sep 200700:00 | – | nessus |
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secure1 | www.secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53859");
script_version("2023-07-19T05:05:15+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2002-1337");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-19 05:05:15 +0000 (Wed, 19 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 22:28:10 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 257-1 (sendmail)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 E-Soft Inc.");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB(2\.2|3\.0)");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20257-1");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force found a bug in the header parsing routines
of sendmail: it could overflow a buffer overflow when encountering
addresses with very long comments. Since sendmail also parses headers
when forwarding emails this vulnerability can hit mail-servers which do
not deliver the email as well.
This has been fixed in upstream release 8.12.8, version 8.12.3-5 of
the package for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0/woody and version 8.9.3-25 of the
package for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/potato.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update to sendmail
announced via advisory DSA 257-1.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"sendmail", ver:"8.9.3-25", rls:"DEB2.2")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"sendmail-doc", ver:"8.12.3-5", rls:"DEB3.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"sendmail", ver:"8.12.3-5", rls:"DEB3.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libmilter-dev", ver:"8.12.3-5", rls:"DEB3.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
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