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01 Record

CVE-2006-1173

Sendmail before 8.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via deeply nested, malformed multipart MIME messages that exhaust the stack during the recursive mime8to7 function for

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: certcc
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
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02 Description

Sendmail before 8.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via deeply nested, malformed multipart MIME messages that exhaust the stack during the recursive mime8to7 function for

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
5.27% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 92.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
The NVD has published no score for this record
NVD CVSS vector
No NVD score to derive
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
Red Hat severity
Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2006-06-07 23:00Z20 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-07 17:03Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2006-03-12
Assigning CNA
certcc
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
Data version
5.1
Document digest
8d271ad4ef3beaf537ff4024bc7e8d538a9d6c2398b052f634d1483bcf37c966

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
redhatenterprise_linuxNot specified—
sendmailsendmailNot specified—

06 References

07 Fixed in

Debian 12

  • sendmail
    Fixed in 8.13.7-1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 13

  • sendmail
    Fixed in 8.13.7-1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 14

  • sendmail
    Fixed in 8.13.7-1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.