PT-2006-3579 · Courier · Courier Mta

Racke + 1 · Published 2006-05-30 · Updated 2018-10-03 · CVE-2006-2659

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Courier MTA versions prior to 0.53.2

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, by exploiting how usernames with the "=" character are handled during encoding.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.53.2, update to version 0.53.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-2659

DSA-1101

Affected Products

Courier Mta

References · 17

• https://usn.ubuntu.com/294-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-2659 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2659 · Security Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368834 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-2659 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-06.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://courier-mta.org/beta/patches/verp-fix/README.txt · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-2659 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1101 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20792 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/18345 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21350 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20548 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26998 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20519 · Note