CVE-2006-2659

high

Description

libs/comverp.c in Courier MTA before 0.53.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unknown vectors involving usernames that contain the "=" (equals) character, which is not properly handled during encoding.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/294-1/

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26998

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2214

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18345

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1101

http://www.courier-mta.org/beta/patches/verp-fix/README.txt

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016248

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-06.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/21350

http://secunia.com/advisories/20792

http://secunia.com/advisories/20548

http://secunia.com/advisories/20519

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368834

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-05-30

Updated: 2018-10-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H