Sympa MIME::Entity::head object denial of service
| sympa-mimeentityhead-dos (41561) |  Low Risk |
Description:
Sympa is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when a method is called on an undefined MIME::Entity::head object. By sending an email containing a specially-crafted Content-Type header, a remote attacker could crash the application.
Platforms Affected:
- Debian, Debian Linux 4.0
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0
- Sympa, Sympa prior to 5.4
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Sympa (5.4 or later), available from the Sympa Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- SourceSup Web site, Corrupted Content-Type: header causes sympa.pl to crash sending text digest at https://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=23&aid=3702&atid=167.
- Sympa Changelog, 5.4, 27 March 2008, Bug fixes at http://www.sympa.org/distribution/latest-stable/NEWS.
- Sympa Web site, Sympa at http://www.sympa.org/.
- BID-28539: Sympa 'Content-Type' Header Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-1648: Sympa before 5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an e-mail message with a malformed value of the Content-Type header and unspecified other headers. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
- DSA-1600: sympa -- dos
- MDVSA-2008:133: Updated sympa packages fix DoS vulnerability
- SA29575: Sympa Malformed "Content-Type" Header Denial of Service Vulnerability
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-1080: Sympa Content-Type Header Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Reported:
Mar 27, 2008
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