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CVE-2009-1490

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2009-05-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Sendmail Sendmail

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References