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CVE-2006-1173: sendmail Resource Management Errors

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesRHSA-2006:0515DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1173DSA-1155
Published 07-06-2006Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-1173 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in sendmail. EPSS estimates a 5.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
21/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
5.27%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 07-06-2006
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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 performing 8-bit to 7-bit conversion, which prevents Sendmail from delivering queued messages and might lead to disk consumption by core dump files.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

5.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

92%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 5.27% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
5.27%

Known exploited

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Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Redhat5 products
  • sendmail< 0:8.12.11-4.RHEL3.6 | < 0:8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
  • sendmail-cf< 0:8.12.11-4.RHEL3.6 | < 0:8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
  • sendmail-debuginfo< 0:8.12.11-4.RHEL3.6 | < 0:8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
  • sendmail-devel< 0:8.12.11-4.RHEL3.6 | < 0:8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
  • sendmail-doc< 0:8.12.11-4.RHEL3.6 | < 0:8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
Debian1 product
  • sendmail< 8.13.7-1 | < 8.13.4-3sarge2
Sendmail1 product
  • sendmail≤ 8.13.6 | 8.8.8 | 8.9.0 | 8.9.1 | 8.9.2 | 8.9.3 | 8.10 | 8.10.1 | 8.10.2 | 8.11.0 | 8.11.1 | 8.11.2 | 8.11.3 | 8.11.4 | 8.11.5 | 8.11.6 | 8.11.7 | 8.12:beta10 | 8.12:beta12 | 8.12:beta16 | 8.12:beta5 | 8.12:beta7 | 8.12.0 | 8.12.1 | 8.12.2 | 8.12.3 | 8.12.4 | 8.12.5 | 8.12.6 | 8.12.7 | 8.12.8 | 8.12.9 | 8.12.10 | 8.12.11 | 8.13.0 | 8.13.1 | 8.13.1.2 | 8.13.2 | 8.13.3 | 8.13.4 | 8.13.5

3 vendors · 7 products

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