PHPMailer 1.7 - 'Data()' Remote Denial of Service

Author: Mariano Nunez Di Croce
type: dos
platform: php
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date_added: 2005-05-28
date_updated: 2017-06-22
verified: 1
codes: CVE-2005-1807;OSVDB-16935
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13805/info

PHPMailer is affected by a remote denial-of-service vulnerability.

An attacker can send an email message with a malformed header field to initiate an infinite loop in the application. This eventually leads to a crash due to resource exhaustion.

PHPMailer 1.72 and prior versions are affected by this issue.

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