Description
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 Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- REDHAT
- Published
- 10/20/2003
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
redhat : sendmailredhat : sendmailredhat : sendmailredhat : sendmailredhat : sendmailredhat : sendmailredhat : sendmailredhat : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsgi : irixsgi : irixsgi : irixcompaq : tru64compaq : tru64freebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdopenbsd : openbsd
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