PT-2000-1292 · Sendmail · Sendmail

Published 2000-04-23 · Updated 2008-09-10 · CVE-2000-0319

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sendmail versions 8.10.x

Description The issue concerns the mail.local component in Sendmail, which fails to properly identify the . string that marks the end of message text. This allows a remote attacker to potentially cause a denial of service or corrupt mailboxes by sending a message line that is 2047 characters long and ends in . .

Recommendations For Sendmail version 8.10.x, update to a version that properly handles the . string to prevent denial of service or mailbox corruption.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-0319

Affected Products

Sendmail

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0319 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/1146 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=2694.000424%40SECURITY.NNOV.RU · Note