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SSA-2006-166-01 sendmail

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SSA-2006-166-01 sendmail

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

New sendmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0,
10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible denial-of-service issue.

Sendmail's complete advisory may be found here:
http://www.sendmail.com/security/advisories/SA-200605-01.txt.asc

Sendmail has also provided an FAQ about this issue:
http://www.sendmail.com/security/advisories/SA-200605-01/faq.shtml

The CVE entry for this issue may be found here:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1173

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Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Michel Arboi

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