Vulnerability CVE-2009-1490
Published: 2009-05-05   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Heap-based buffer overflow in Sendmail before 8.13.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long X- header, as demonstrated by an X-Testing header.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Sendmail -> Sendmail 

 References:
http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.13.2
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/50355
http://www.nmrc.org/~thegnome/blog/apr09/
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