CVE-2005-2070: Sendmail

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Sendmail Sendmail: version 8.8.8 only; version 8.9.0 only; version 8.9.1 only; version 8.9.2 only; version 8.9.3 only; version 8.10 only; …

Published 2005-06-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.