openSUSE 10 Security Update : sendmail (sendmail-1607)

Specially crafted MIME messages can crash sendmail and block queue processing. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update sendmail-1607. The text description of this plugin is C SUSE LLC...

SUSE-SA:2006:032: sendmail

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2006:032 sendmail. The Mail Transfer Agent sendmail has a remote exploitable problem, where a specially crafted MIME messages can crash sendmail and block queue processing. This issue is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2006-1173 and CE...

Sendmail: Denial of service

Background Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent MTA. Description Frank Sheiness discovered that the mime8to7 function can recurse endlessly during the decoding of multipart MIME messages until the stack of the process is filled and the process crashes. Impact By sending specially crafted...