Description
The prescan function in Sendmail 8.12.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via buffer overflow attacks, as demonstrated using the parseaddr function in parseaddr.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
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SENDMAIL
- Published
- 10/6/2003
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
sendmail : advanced_message_serversendmail : advanced_message_serversendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmailsendmail : sendmail_prosendmail : sendmail_prosendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsendmail : sendmail_switchsgi : irixsgi : irixsgi : irixsgi : irixsgi : irixsgi : irixsgi : irixsgi : irixsgi : irixsgi : irixsgi : irixsgi : irixapple : mac_os_xapple : mac_os_xapple : mac_os_xapple : mac_os_xapple : mac_os_xapple : mac_os_xapple : mac_os_xapple : mac_os_x_serverapple : mac_os_x_serverapple : mac_os_x_serverapple : mac_os_x_serverapple : mac_os_x_serverapple : mac_os_x_serverapple : mac_os_x_servercompaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64compaq : tru64freebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdfreebsd : freebsdgentoo : linuxgentoo : linuxgentoo : linuxgentoo : linuxgentoo : linuxgentoo : linuxgentoo : linuxhp : hp-uxhp : hp-uxhp : hp-uxhp : hp-uxibm : aixibm : aixibm : aixnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdnetbsd : netbsdsun : solarissun : solarissun : solarissun : solarissun : solarissun : sunossun : sunossun : sunosturbolinux : turbolinux_advanced_serverturbolinux : turbolinux_serverturbolinux : turbolinux_serverturbolinux : turbolinux_serverturbolinux : turbolinux_serverturbolinux : turbolinux_workstationturbolinux : turbolinux_workstationturbolinux : turbolinux_workstation
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