rPSA-2006-0134-1 sendmail sendmail-cf

["Justin M. Forbes" <suppressed>]

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=/suppressed:devel//1/8.13.7-0.1-1
    sendmail-cf=/suppressed:devel//1/8.13.7-0.1-1

References:
    http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1173
    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.