CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0714

2.1 LOW Published 2001-10-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-10-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Sendmail before 8.12.1, without the RestrictQueueRun option enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (data loss) by (1) setting a high initial message hop count option (-h), which causes Sendmail to drop queue entries, (2) via the -qR option, or (3) via the -qS option.

Affected configurations

• sendmail sendmail (<= 8.12.1)

References