CVE-2009-1490

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 5, 2009
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Apr 30, 2009

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Sendmail before 8.13.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long X- header, as demonstrated by an X-Testing header.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.13.2
http://www.nmrc.org/~thegnome/blog/apr09/
sendmail-xheader-bo(50355)vdb-entry

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