CVE-2006-1173

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-06-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Sendmail before 8.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via deeply nested, malformed multipart MIME messages that exhaust the stack during the recursive mime8to7 function for performing 8-bit to 7-bit conversion, which prevents Sendmail from delivering queued messages and might lead to disk consumption by core dump files.

Affected products

Sendmail: through 8.13.6; 8.8.8, 8.9.0, 8.9.1, 8.9.2, 8.9.3, 8.10 (+34)

References

http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00692635
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/15779
http://secunia.com/advisories/20473
http://secunia.com/advisories/20641
http://secunia.com/advisories/20650
http://secunia.com/advisories/20651
http://secunia.com/advisories/20654
http://secunia.com/advisories/20673

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