CVE-2006-0709

N/A Unknown

Published: February 15, 2006 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352482

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/18796

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/18987

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/19000

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/19130

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/19226

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/19304

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015654

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-995

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-16.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0217.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16611

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit Patch

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0565

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:047

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24702

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352482