CVE-1999-0684

Summary

CVE-1999-0684 refers to a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Sendmail version 8.8.6 on HP-UX platforms. Hackers can exploit this weakness by sending specially crafted emails, leading to a resource exhaustion issue, causing the mail server to crash and become unavailable for legitimate use. This vulnerability can result in significant downtime and disruption to email services until the issue is resolved. It is recommended that affected systems be updated to a patched version of Sendmail as soon as possible to mitigate the risk.

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