CVE-2006-4434

Use-after-free vulnerability in Sendmail before 8.13.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long "header line", which causes a previously freed variable to be referenced. NOTE: the original developer has disputed the severity of this issue, saying "The only denial of service that is possible here is to fill up the disk with core dumps if the OS actually generates different core dumps (which is unlikely)... the bug is in the shutdown code (finis()) which leads directly to exit(3), i.e., the process would terminate anyway, no mail delivery or receiption is affected."
References
Link Resource
http://secunia.com/advisories/21637 Broken Link Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21641 Broken Link Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21696 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21700 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21749 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22369 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016753 Broken Link Patch Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102664-1 Broken Link
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-August/000999.html Mailing List
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1164 Broken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:156 Broken Link
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_21_sr.html Broken Link
http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#sendmail3 Release Notes
http://www.openbsd.org/errata38.html#sendmail3 Third Party Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/28193 Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19714 Broken Link Patch Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.13.8.html Release Notes
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3393 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3994 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21637 Broken Link Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21641 Broken Link Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21696 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21700 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21749 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22369 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016753 Broken Link Patch Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102664-1 Broken Link
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-August/000999.html Mailing List
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1164 Broken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:156 Broken Link
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_21_sr.html Broken Link
http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#sendmail3 Release Notes
http://www.openbsd.org/errata38.html#sendmail3 Third Party Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/28193 Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19714 Broken Link Patch Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.13.8.html Release Notes
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3393 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3994 Broken Link Vendor Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2006-08-29 00:04

Updated : 2025-04-03 01:03


NVD link : CVE-2006-4434

Mitre link : CVE-2006-4434

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2006-4434


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Products Affected

sendmail

  • sendmail
CWE
CWE-416

Use After Free