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Sympa Malformed "Content-Type" Header Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA29575
Release Date: 2008-04-01
Last Update: 2008-04-10
Popularity: 3,943 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Sympa 5.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sympa, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a function call on an undefined value when processing mails with a specially crafted "Content-Type" header. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending a specially crafted email to a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 5.4.

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