CVE-2009-1490

critical

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Sendmail before 8.13.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long X- header, as demonstrated by an X-Testing header.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50355

http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.13.2

http://www.nmrc.org/~thegnome/blog/apr09/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-05-05

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical