CVE-2001-0653

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.6
Exploit probability—
ProductSendmail
PublishedSep 20, 2001
First seenSep 20, 2001

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
sendmail sendmail8.11.0, 8.11.1, 8.11.2, 8.11.3, 8.11.4, 8.11.5, 8.12—

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