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CVE-2006-0709
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
Buffer overflow in Metamail 2.7-50 allows remote attackers 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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 6.4/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- Partial
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:metamail_corporation:metamail:2.7.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352482
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16611
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18796
- http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:047
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0217.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015654
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18987
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19000
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19130
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-995
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19226
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-16.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19304
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0565
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24702