CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0545

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2000-08-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-08-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in mailx mail command (aka Mail) on Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges via a long -c (carbon copy) parameter.

Affected configurations

• sgi mailx 3 • sgi mailx 4 • sgi mailx 5 • sgi mailx 6.0.1 • sgi mailx 6.1 • sgi mailx 6.2 • sgi mailx 6.3 • sgi mailx 6.4 • sgi mailx 6.5

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