Sendmail DNS Maps Denial Of Service Vulnerability
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
10/20/2003
07/25/2018
11/01/2004
07/16/2012
Description
Certain versions of Sendmail in the 8.12.x series do not properly initialize the DNS Map structure. As a result, a remote attacker can send an invalid DNS reply to cause Sendmail to free() uninitialized data, crashing the process. It is unknown if remote execution of arbitrary code is possible.
Solution(s)
- upgrade-latest-sendmail
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