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CVE-2001-0653

CVE information

Published

22 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4.6/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta16:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta12:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta7:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta10:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -