CVE-2003-0161
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The prescan() function in the address parser (parseaddr.c) in Sendmail before 8.12.9 does not properly handle certain conversions from char and int types, which can cause a length check to be disabled when Sendmail misinterprets an input value as a special "NOCHAR" control value, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack using messages, a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-1337.
- EPSS
- 39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- compaq:tru64
- hp:hp-ux
- hp:hp-ux_series_700
- hp:hp-ux_series_800
- hp:sis
- sendmail:sendmail
- sendmail:sendmail_switch
- sun:solaris
- sun:sunos
References
- ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2003-016.0.txt
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail.asc
- ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2004.11/SCOSA-2004.11.txt
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20030401-01-P
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000614