Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2070

Title: Sendmail Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-2070.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Jun 29, 2005
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.66%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2070: The ClamAV Mail fILTER (clamav-milter) 0.84 through 0.85d, when used in Sendmail using long timeouts, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by keeping an open connection, which prevents ClamAV from reloading.

Impacted Vendors

E
eric_allman 1
M
metainfo 1
S
sendmail 1
R
redhat 1

Reference Links

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0197.html http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_38_clamav.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14047 http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0197.html http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_38_clamav.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14047
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-2070 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.