CVE-2009-1490: Buffer Overflow

First published: Tue May 05 2009(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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