CVE-2006-3216 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Clearswift MAILsweeper for SMTP and MAILsweeper for Exchange versions prior to 4.3.20. Attackers can exploit this by sending non-ASCII characters in reverse DNS lookup results within a Received header, causing the Receiver service to stop, or by sending malformed messages that lead to unpredictable behavior and prevent the Security service from processing further messages. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.3.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper_for_exchange:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 4.3.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper_for_smtp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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