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Sendmail Asynchronous Signal Handling Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Title : Sendmail Asynchronous Signal Handling Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-1049
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0058
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-03-22

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A critical vulnerability has been identified in Sendmail, which could be exploited by remote attackers or network worms to take complete control of an affected system [...]

Affected Products

Sendmail version 8.13.5 and prior
Sendmail version 8.12.11 and prior
Sendmail Sentrion versions 1.1
Sendmail Switch versions 2.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Switch versions 3.0.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Switch versions 3.1.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Managed MTA versions 2.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Managed MTA versions 3.0.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Managed MTA versions 3.1.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Multi-Switch versions 2.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Multi-Switch versions 3.0.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Multi-Switch versions 3.1.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Message Store/SAMS versions 1.2.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Message Store/SAMS versions 2.0.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Message Store/SAMS versions 2.1.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Sendmail Message Store/SAMS versions 2.2.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
Intelligent Quarantine version 3.0 (Solaris or Linux)

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Mark Dowd

ChangeLog

2006-03-22 : Initial release
2006-03-23 : Updated Advisory

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