CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-0709

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability in Metamail 2.7-50 occurs when processing a long 'boundary' attribute in email messages. An attacker can send a crafted email causing a denial of service or potentially arbitrary code execution.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes disruption of mail services and potential remote code execution, which could lead to full system compromise.

Recommendation

Immediately update Metamail to a version later than 2.7-50 that includes a fix for this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in Metamail 2.7-50 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via e-mail messages with a long boundary attribute, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0105.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS