Description
The version of Sendmail 8.13.1-2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 and earlier does not reject the "localhost.localdomain" domain name for e-mail messages that come from external hosts, which might allow remote attackers to spoof messages.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- medium
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SENDMAIL
- Published
- 3/27/2007
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
sendmail : sendmail
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