7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-0709

Published: 15/02/2006 Updated: 20/07/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in Metamail 2.7-50 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via e-mail messages with a long boundary attribute, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0105.

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metamail corporation metamail 2.7.50

Vendor Advisories

Ulf Härnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in metamail, an implementation of MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions), that could lead to a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code when processing messages For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 27-45woody4 For the stable distribution ...