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Sendmail Signal Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19342
Release Date: 2006-03-23
Popularity: 26,569 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sendmail Sentrion 1.x

Software:Intelligent Quarantine 3.x
Sendmail 8.x
Sendmail Managed MTA 2.x
Sendmail Managed MTA 3.x
Sendmail Message Store/SAMS 1.x
Sendmail Message Store/SAMS 2.x
Sendmail Multi-Switch 2.x
Sendmail Multi-Switch 3.x
Sendmail Switch 2.x
Sendmail Switch 3.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
ISS X-Force has reported a vulnerability in Sendmail, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a signal handling error when receiving and processing mail data from clients. This can be exploited to corrupt memory by sending specially crafted data at certain time intervals.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the sendmail server daemon.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following products:
* Sendmail 8.13.5 and prior
* Sendmail 8.12.11 and prior
* Sendmail Sentrion 1.1
* Sendmail Switch 2.x, 3.0.x, and 3.1.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
* Sendmail Managed MTA 2.x, 3.0.x, and 3.1.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
* Sendmail Multi-Switch 2.x, 3.0.x, and 3.1.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
* Sendmail Message Store/SAMS 1.2.x, 2.0.x, 2.1.x, and 2.2.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
* Intelligent Quarantine 3.0 (Solaris or Linux)

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