CVE-2006-7176

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The version of Sendmail 8.13.1-2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 and earlier does not reject the "localhost.localdomain" domain name for e-mail messages that come from external hosts, which might allow remote attackers to spoof messages.

Affected products

Sendmail: 8.13.1.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
http://secunia.com/advisories/25743
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-248.htm
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0252.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23742
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171838
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11499
http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
http://secunia.com/advisories/25743
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-248.htm
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0252.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23742

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