Description
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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- partial
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SENDMAIL
- Published
- 9/20/2001
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
sendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmail
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