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TITLE:
Sympa Malformed "Content-Type" Header Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29575

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29575/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Sympa 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/18135/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sympa, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a function call on an undefined
value when processing mails with a specially crafted "Content-Type"
header. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending a
specially crafted email to a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 5.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.4.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Adam Bernstein

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.sympa.org/distribution/latest-stable/NEWS
https://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=23&aid=3702&atid=167

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