cve-2006-4434

HIGH vulncheck_kev
Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Sendmail before 8.13.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long "header line", which causes a previously freed variable to be referenced. NOTE: the original developer has disputed the severity of this issue, saying "The only denial of service that is possible here is to fill up the disk with core dumps if the OS actually generates different core dumps (which is unlikely)... the bug is in the shutdown code (finis()) which leads directly to exit(3), i.e., the process would terminate anyway, no mail delivery or receiption is affected."

Timeline
Published
2006-08-29 00:00 UTC
Last Modified
2006-08-29
CVSS Details

CVSS details not available.

Affected Products

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References

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Linked Vulnerabilities

No linked vulnerabilities found.

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  "cvss": 0.0,
  "datePublished": "2006-08-29T00:00:00Z",
  "dateUpdated": "2006-08-29T00:00:00Z",
  "description": "Use-after-free vulnerability in Sendmail before 8.13.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long \"header line\", which causes a previously freed variable to be referenced. NOTE: the original developer has disputed the severity of this issue, saying \"The only denial of service that is possible here is to fill up the disk with core dumps if the OS actually generates different core dumps (which is unlikely)... the bug is in the shutdown code (finis()) which leads directly to exit(3), i.e., the process would terminate anyway, no mail delivery or receiption is affected.\"",
  "dueDate": "",
  "id": "CVE-2006-4434",
  "kev_catalogs": [
    "vulncheck"
  ],
  "knownRansomwareCampaignUse": "Unknown",
  "product": "sendmail",
  "requiredAction": "Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.",
  "severity": "HIGH",
  "source": "vulncheck_kev",
  "title": "sendmail sendmail Use After Free",
  "vendor": "sendmail"
}
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