CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0653

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-09-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-09-20
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

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.

Affected configurations

• sendmail sendmail 8.11.0 • sendmail sendmail 8.11.1 • sendmail sendmail 8.11.2 • sendmail sendmail 8.11.3 • sendmail sendmail 8.11.4 • sendmail sendmail 8.11.5 • sendmail sendmail 8.12

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