CVE-2003-0688

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The DNS map code in Sendmail 8.12.8 and earlier, when using the "enhdnsbl" feature, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via an invalid DNS response that causes Sendmail to free incorrect data.

The DNS map code in Sendmail 8.12.8 and earlier, when using the "enhdnsbl" feature, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via an invalid DNS response that causes Sendmail to free incorrect data.

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 21 years ago

2003-10-20 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-05-03 01:29:00

Affected Software

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.1

8.12.1

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.2

8.12.2

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.3

8.12.3

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.4

8.12.4

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.5

8.12.5

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.6

8.12.6

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.7

8.12.7

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.8

8.12.8

SGI IRIX 6.5.19

6.5.19

SGI IRIX 6.5.20

6.5.20

SGI IRIX 6.5.21

6.5.21

Compaq Tru64 5.0a

5.0a

Compaq Tru64 5.1

5.1

FreeBSD 4.6

4.6

FreeBSD 4.7

4.7

FreeBSD 4.8

4.8

FreeBSD 5.0

5.0

OpenBSD 3.2

3.2

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