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sendmail: denial of service

Package(s):sendmail CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1173
Created:June 15, 2006 Updated:November 1, 2006
Description: Sendmail has a vulnerability in the way it handles multi-part MIME messages. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted email message that can be used to crash the sendmail process, causing a denial of service.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:195418 2006-10-29
Debian DSA-1155-2 2006-08-24
Debian DSA-1155-1 2006-08-24
rPath rPSA-2006-0134-1 2006-07-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-837 2006-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2006-836 2006-07-18
Gentoo 200606-19 2006-06-15
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:032 2006-06-14
Slackware SSA:2006-166-01 2006-06-15
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0515-01 2006-06-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:104 2006-06-14
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