Health scares can provide lessons for security

The swine flu outbreak has inspired a flood of comparisons and false analogies to Conficker and other worms, most of which miss the many key differences between the Internet infrastructure and the human population. But there are lessons that security personnel can learn from the ways that health...

CVE-2006-0487

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Tumbleweed MailGate Email Firewall EMF 6.x allow remote attackers to 1 trigger temporarily incorrect processing of an e-mail message under "extremely heavy loads" and 2 cause an "increased number of missed spam" during "spam outbreaks."...

Design/Logic Flaw

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Tumbleweed MailGate Email Firewall EMF 6.x allow remote attackers to 1 trigger temporarily incorrect processing of an e-mail message under "extremely heavy loads" and 2 cause an "increased number of missed spam" during "spam outbreaks."...

CVE-2006-0487

Technical details for CVE-2006-0487 are not publicly available in the provided documents. No concrete information on affected components, root cause, or remediation is supplied here; monitor for updates.