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sendmail: denial of service

Package(s):

sendmail

CVE #(s):

CVE-2006-4434

Created:

August 31, 2006

Updated:

September 6, 2006

Description:

The sendmail mail transfer agent has a programming error. A remote attacker can send specially crafted email messages with extra long header lines to sendmail. The sendmail process will crash, leading to a denial of service.

Alerts:

SuSE	SUSE-SR:2006:021	2006-09-01
Mandriva	MDKSA-2006:156	2006-08-30
Debian	DSA-1164-1	2006-08-31

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