CVE-2001-0653
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.
- EPSS
- 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 67% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- sendmail:sendmail
References
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-017.txt.asc
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000412
- http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-032-01
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99841063100516&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2001-106.html