Vulnerability in Sendmail
CVE-2001-0653
Sendmail 8.10.0 through 8.11.5, and 8.12.0 beta, allows local users to modify process memory and possibly gain privileges via a large value in the 'category' part of debugger (-d) command line arguments, which is interpreted as a negative number.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.012 (66.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 66.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Sendmail — versions 8.11.0, 8.11.1, 8.11.2
References
- www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-075.php3 (vendor-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_028_sendmail_txt.html (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7016 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/3163 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-032.0.txt (vendor-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2001-106.html (vendor-advisory)
- download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-032-01 (vendor-advisory)
- www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-133.shtml (government-resource, third-party-advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do (vendor-advisory)