National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2006-0058
Orirignal release date: 2006-03-22
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Signal handler race condition in Sendmail 8.13.x before 8.13.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering timeouts in a way that causes the setjmp and longjmp function calls to be interrupted and modify unexpected memory locations.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 8.0 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: race
    Impact Type: avail,conf,int,sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Sendmail (Sendmail Consortium)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0058