CVE-1999-1109

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Sendmail before 8.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a series of ETRN commands then disconnecting from the server, while Sendmail continues to process the commands after the connection has been terminated.

Sendmail before 8.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a series of ETRN commands then disconnecting from the server, while Sendmail continues to process the commands after the connection has been terminated.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 25 years ago

1999-12-22 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:01:00

Affected Software

Sendmail Sendmail

References

19991222 Re: procmail / Sendmail - five bugs

20000113 Re: procmail / Sendmail - five bugs

sendmail-etrn-dos(7760)

904

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