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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

2001-09-20T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.6 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

  • Access Vector: LOCAL
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    NVD-CWE-Other
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application sendmail sendmail 8.11.0 Yes
Application sendmail sendmail 8.11.1 Yes
Application sendmail sendmail 8.11.2 Yes
Application sendmail sendmail 8.11.3 Yes
Application sendmail sendmail 8.11.4 Yes
Application sendmail sendmail 8.11.5 Yes
Application sendmail sendmail 8.12 Yes
Application sendmail sendmail 8.12 Yes
Application sendmail sendmail 8.12 Yes
Application sendmail sendmail 8.12 Yes
Application sendmail sendmail 8.12 Yes
References