CVE-2009-1490

Publication date 5 May 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Sendmail before 8.13.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long X- header, as demonstrated by an X-Testing header.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
sendmail 9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

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