CVE-2006-2659 Information

Description

libs/comverp.c in Courier MTA before 0.53.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unknown vectors involving usernames that contain the =\ (equals) character which is not properly handled during encoding.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368834 http://secunia.com/advisories/20519 http://secunia.com/advisories/20548 http://secunia.com/advisories/20792 http://secunia.com/advisories/21350 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-06.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1016248 http://www.courier-mta.org/beta/patches/verp-fix/README.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1101 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18345 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2214 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26998 https://usn.ubuntu.com/294-1/