PT-2006-1762 · Metamail · Metamail

Ulf Harnhammar · Published 2006-02-15 · Updated 2017-07-20 · CVE-2006-0709

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Metamail version 2.7-50

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow that can be triggered by e-mail messages with a long boundary attribute. This can cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, or potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code.

Recommendations For Metamail version 2.7-50, consider restricting the processing of e-mail messages with long boundary attributes until a fix is available. As a temporary workaround, limiting the length of boundary attributes in incoming e-mails may help minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-0709

DSA-995-1

Affected Products

Metamail

References · 17

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/16611 · Exploit
• http://debian.org/security/2006/dsa-995 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:047 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18796 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0217.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18987 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0709 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19000 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-16.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19304 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352482 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015654 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19226 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24702 · Note