CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1278

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-11-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-11-12
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

The mailconf module in Linuxconf 1.24, and other versions before 1.28, on Conectiva Linux 6.0 through 8, and possibly other distributions, generates the Sendmail configuration file (sendmail.cf) in a way that configures Sendmail to run as an open mail relay, which allows remote attackers to send Spam email.

Affected configurations

• jacques gelinas linuxconf 1.2.4r2 • jacques gelinas linuxconf 1.2.5r3

References