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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:597		Date: 2007-04-10
Title:	Denial of Service in Sendmail via the enhdnsbl Feature
Description:	The DNS map code in Sendmail 8.12.8 and earlier, when using the "enhdnsbl" feature, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via an invalid DNS response that causes Sendmail to free incorrect data.
Version:	2	Class:	vulnerability
Status:	ACCEPTED	Reference(s):	CVE-2003-0688
Family:	unix
Platform(s):	Red Hat Linux 9	Product(s):	Sendmail
Definition Synopsis:
Software section Red Hat 9 is installed AND ix86 architecture AND sendmail version is less than 8.12.8-6.90 AND Configuration section sendmail is listening to the network

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