CVE-2006-1173

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1173
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2006-1173.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2006-1173
Related
Published
2006-06-07T23:06:00Z
Modified
2025-04-03T01:03:51Z
Downstream
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / sendmail

Package

Name
sendmail
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sendmail?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.13.7-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:12 / sendmail

Package

Name
sendmail
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sendmail?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.13.7-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:13 / sendmail

Package

Name
sendmail
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sendmail?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.13.7-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}