Description
Sendmail 8.12.0 through 8.12.6 truncates log messages longer than 100 characters, which allows remote attackers to prevent the IP address from being logged via a long IDENT response.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- partial
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SENDMAIL
- Published
- 12/31/2002
- 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 : sendmail
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