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diff --git a/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-19.xml b/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-19.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fd378d39 --- /dev/null +++ b/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-19.xml @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> +<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> +<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> + +<glsa id="200606-19"> + <title>Sendmail: Denial of Service</title> + <synopsis> + Faulty multipart MIME messages can cause forked Sendmail processes to + crash. + </synopsis> + <product type="ebuild">sendmail</product> + <announced>June 15, 2006</announced> + <revised>June 15, 2006: 01</revised> + <bug>135141</bug> + <access>remote</access> + <affected> + <package name="mail-mta/sendmail" auto="yes" arch="*"> + <unaffected range="ge">8.13.6-r1</unaffected> + <vulnerable range="lt">8.13.6-r1</vulnerable> + </package> + </affected> + <background> + <p> + Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent (MTA). + </p> + </background> + <description> + <p> + Frank Sheiness discovered that the mime8to7() function can recurse + endlessly during the decoding of multipart MIME messages until the + stack of the process is filled and the process crashes. + </p> + </description> + <impact type="normal"> + <p> + By sending specially crafted multipart MIME messages, a remote + attacker can cause a subprocess forked by Sendmail to crash. If + Sendmail is not set to use a randomized queue processing, the attack + will effectively halt the delivery of queued mails as well as the + malformed one, incoming mail delivered interactively is not affected. + Additionally, on systems where core dumps with an individual naming + scheme (like "core.pid") are enabled, a filesystem may fill up with + core dumps. Core dumps are disabled by default in Gentoo. + </p> + </impact> + <workaround> + <p> + The Sendmail 8.13.7 release information offers some workarounds, please + see the Reference below. Note that the issue has actually been fixed in + the 8.13.6-r1 ebuild. + </p> + </workaround> + <resolution> + <p> + All Sendmail users should upgrade to the latest version: + </p> + <code> + # emerge --sync + # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.6-r1"</code> + </resolution> + <references> + <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1173">CVE-2006-1173</uri> + <uri link="http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.13.7.html">Sendmail 8.13.7 release information</uri> + </references> + <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:47:59 +0000"> + jaervosz + </metadata> + <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:21:03 +0000"> + frilled + </metadata> + <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:00:46 +0000"> + jaervosz + </metadata> +</glsa> |