fkie_cve-2003-0688
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2003-10-20 04:00
Modified
2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
Summary
The DNS map code in Sendmail 8.12.8 and earlier, when using the "enhdnsbl" feature, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via an invalid DNS response that causes Sendmail to free incorrect data.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20030803-01-P
cve@mitre.orghttp://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000727
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/993452US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:086
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_035_sendmail.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-265.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.sendmail.org/dnsmap1.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A597
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20030803-01-P
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000727
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/993452US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:086
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_035_sendmail.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-265.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.sendmail.org/dnsmap1.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A597
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat sendmail 8.12.5-7
redhat sendmail 8.12.5-7
redhat sendmail 8.12.5-7
redhat sendmail 8.12.5-7
redhat sendmail 8.12.8-4
redhat sendmail 8.12.8-4
redhat sendmail 8.12.8-4
redhat sendmail 8.12.8-4
sendmail sendmail 8.12.1
sendmail sendmail 8.12.2
sendmail sendmail 8.12.3
sendmail sendmail 8.12.4
sendmail sendmail 8.12.5
sendmail sendmail 8.12.6
sendmail sendmail 8.12.7
sendmail sendmail 8.12.8
sgi irix 6.5.19
sgi irix 6.5.20
sgi irix 6.5.21
compaq tru64 5.0a
compaq tru64 5.1
freebsd freebsd 4.6
freebsd freebsd 4.7
freebsd freebsd 4.8
freebsd freebsd 5.0
openbsd openbsd 3.2


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