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.

EPSS: 0.012 (64.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Sendmail — versions 8.11.0, 8.11.1, 8.11.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

References