sendmail: malformed MIME message leads to potential denial of service (CVE-2006-1173)

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Debian Bug report logs - #373801
sendmail: malformed MIME message leads to potential denial of service (CVE-2006-1173)

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Reported by: Joost van Baal <j.e.vanbaal+debian-bugs-20060615-3@uvt.nl>

Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:03:10 UTC

Severity: critical

Tags: security

Found in versions sendmail/8.13.6-1, sendmail/8.13.4-3sarge1

Fixed in version sendmail/8.13.7-1

Done: Filipus Klutiero <chealer@vif.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Richard A Nelson (Rick) <cowboy@debian.org>:
Bug#373801; Package sendmail. (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Joost van Baal <j.e.vanbaal+debian-bugs-20060615-3@uvt.nl>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: sendmail: malformed MIME message leads to potential denial of service (CVE-2006-1173)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:43:29 +0200
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Package: sendmail
Version: 8.13.6-1
Severity: critical
Tags: security


Hi,

CVE-2006-1173 / VU#146718 applies to sendmail < 8.13.7.  Upstream
released a fix in 8.13.7, as well as patches for 8.13.6 and 8.12.11.

Bye,

Joost

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From: Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>
To: Joost van Baal <j.e.vanbaal+debian-bugs-20060615-3@uvt.nl>, 373801-done@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>, debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#373801: sendmail: malformed MIME message leads to potential denial of service (CVE-2006-1173)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:30:08 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Joost van Baal wrote:

> Package: sendmail
> Version: 8.13.6-1
> Severity: critical
> Tags: security
>
>
> Hi,

Hello

> CVE-2006-1173 / VU#146718 applies to sendmail < 8.13.7.  Upstream
> released a fix in 8.13.7, as well as patches for 8.13.6 and 8.12.11.

Yeah, I uploaded  8.13.7 yesterday before it had a CVE, and at the time,
I didn't find patches for the back level systems... thanks for the update.

I'll see if I can find someone in the security group...
-- 
Rick Nelson
<theoddone33> What's this message on my screen,
<theoddone33>   so blue, so blue, what could it mean?
<theoddone33> Could you, would you press Delete,
<theoddone33>   Ctrl and Alt and then repeat.



Bug marked as fixed in version 8.13.7-1, send any further explanations to Joost van Baal <j.e.vanbaal+debian-bugs-20060615-3@uvt.nl> Request was from Filipus Klutiero <chealer@vif.com> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Richard A Nelson (Rick) <cowboy@debian.org>:
Bug#373801; Package sendmail. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to "Sergey N. Voronkov" <serg@tmn.ru>:
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Message #18 received at 373801@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Sergey N. Voronkov" <serg@tmn.ru>
To: 373801@bugs.debian.org
Subject: 37381
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:19:37 +0600
Please, reopen this bug. It isn't fixed in sarge.

Sergey N. Voronkov,
Sibitex Ltd.




Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Richard A Nelson (Rick) <cowboy@debian.org>:
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Message #23 received at 373801@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joaquin Urrutia <joaco@j0aco.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <373801@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: sendmail on sarge
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:48:35 +0200
Package: sendmail
Version: 8.13.4-3sarge1
Followup-For: Bug #373801

Please, reopen this bug. It isn't fixed in sarge.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)



Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Richard A Nelson (Rick) <cowboy@debian.org>:
Bug#373801; Package sendmail. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Joaquin Urrutia <joaco@j0aco.com>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Richard A Nelson (Rick) <cowboy@debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #28 received at 373801@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joaquin Urrutia <joaco@j0aco.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <373801@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: patch for sendmail 8.13.4-3sarge1
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:52:47 +0200
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Package: sendmail
Version: 8.13.4-3sarge1
Followup-For: Bug #373801

This is a patch based on sendmail-8.13.1-VU#146718.patch from redhat


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.30-acens-sata
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
[CVE-2006-1173.patch (text/x-c, attachment)]

Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:30:42 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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