CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0906

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-10-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-10-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in Sendmail before 8.12.5, when configured to use a custom DNS map to query TXT records, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malicious DNS server.

Affected configurations

• sendmail sendmail 8.12.0 • sendmail sendmail 8.12.1 • sendmail sendmail 8.12.3 • sendmail sendmail 8.12.4

References