CVE-2006-1173 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Sendmail versions prior to 8.13.7. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the Sendmail service by sending deeply nested, malformed multipart MIME messages, leading to stack exhaustion during 8-bit to 7-bit conversion. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) with a low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily impacts availability by preventing message delivery and potentially consuming disk space with core dumps. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 8.13.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.8.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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