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CVE-2009-1490 (GCVE-0-2009-1490)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-05-05 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:13
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2009-04-27 00:00
Show details on NVD website

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      "id": "CVE-2009-1490",
      "initial_release_date": "2009-04-30T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "sendmail: long first header can overflow into message body",
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      "version": "3"
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      "current_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:04:08Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2009-1490",
      "id": "CVE-2009-1490",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:04:08Z",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2009-1490",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2009-1490.json",
      "version": "2"
    }
  }
}



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