Description
Buffer overflow in Sendmail 5.79 to 8.12.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain formatted address fields, related to sender and recipient header comments as processed by the crackaddr function of headers.c.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- complete
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SENDMAIL
- Published
- 3/7/2003
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
sendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailhp : alphaserver_scgentoo : linuxgentoo : linuxhp : hp-uxhp : hp-uxhp : hp-uxhp : hp-uxhp : hp-uxhp : hp-uxnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdoracle : solarisoracle : solarisoracle : solarisoracle : solarissun : sunossun : sunossun : sunoswindriver : bsdoswindriver : bsdoswindriver : bsdoswindriver : platform_sa
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