CVE-2006-4434

CWE-416Use After Free7 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
7.0%
top 8.51%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 29
Latest updateMay 1

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Sendmail before 8.13.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long "header line", which causes a previously freed variable to be referenced. NOTE: the original developer has disputed the severity of this issue, saying "The only denial of service that is possible here is to fill up the disk with core dumps if the OS actually generates different core dumps (which is unlikely)... the bug is in the shutdown code (finis()) which leads direct

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDsendmail/sendmail< 8.13.8
Debiansendmail< 8.13.8-1+3

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-535c-fwmj-7hhw: Use-after-free vulnerability in Sendmail before 82022-05-01
OSV
CVE-2006-4434: Use-after-free vulnerability in Sendmail before 82006-08-29
CVEList
CVE-2006-4434: Use-after-free vulnerability in Sendmail before 82006-08-29
VulnCheck
sendmail sendmail Use After Free2006

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Debian
CVE-2006-4434: sendmail - Use-after-free vulnerability in Sendmail before 8.13.8 allows remote attackers t...2006
Red Hat
CVE-2006-4434: Use-after-free vulnerability in Sendmail before 8