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TITLE:
Sendmail Long Header Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21637

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21637/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Sendmail 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/145/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sendmail, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing very long
header lines and can be exploited to cause a DoS by sending a
specially crafted email.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 8.13.7. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 8.13.8.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Moritz Jodeit

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html

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