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Sympa Malformed "Content-Type" Header Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29575
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Release Date:
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2008-04-01
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Last Update:
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2008-04-10
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Sympa 5.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-1648 (Secunia mirror)
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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.
Solution:
Update to version 5.4.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Adam Bernstein
Changelog:
2008-04-10: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.sympa.org/distribution/latest-stable/NEWS
https://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?fun...group_id=23&aid=3702&atid=167
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