rPath alert rPSA-2006-0134-1 (sendmail)

From:
    	     
 
"Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes@rpath.com>
To:
    	     
 
security-announce@lists.rpath.com, update-announce@lists.rpath.com
Subject:
    	     
 
rPSA-2006-0134-1 sendmail sendmail-cf
Date:
    	     
 
Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:54:42 -0400
Cc:
    	     
 
full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@securityfocus.com, lwn@lwn.net
rPath Security Advisory: 2006-0134-1
Published: 2006-07-21
Products: rPath Linux 1
Rating: Major
Exposure Level Classification:
    Remote Deterministic Denial of Service
Updated Versions:
    sendmail=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/8.13.7-0.1-1
    sendmail-cf=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/8.13.7-0.1-1

References:
    http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-200...
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-526

Description:
    Previous versions of the sendmail package are vulnerable to a denial
    of service attack in which malformed multipart MIME messages can
    halt sendmail from delivering messages and possibly exhaust disk
    space with core dump files when sendmail crashes.