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ssmtp: denial of service

Package(s):ssmtp CVE #(s):
Created:August 16, 2010 Updated:August 18, 2010
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

a deficiency in the way ssmtp removed trailing '\n' sequence by processing lines beginning with a leading dot. A local user, could send a specially-crafted e-mail message via ssmtp send-only sendmail emulator, leading to ssmtp executable denial of service (exit with: ssmtp: standardise() -- Buffer overflow). Different vulnerability than CVE-2008-3962.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2010-11811 2010-08-03
Fedora FEDORA-2010-11836 2010-08-03

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