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Medium
CVE-2001-0653
Sendmail 8.10.0 through 8.11.5, and 8.12.0 beta, allows local users...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-075.php3
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-017.txt.asc
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_028_sendmail_txt.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7016
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3163
- http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-032.0.txt
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2001-106.html
- http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-032-01
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-133.shtml
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99841063100516&w=2
- http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBTL0112-007
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000412
- http://www.sendmail.org/8.11.html
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
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Vulnerable Versions:
8.11.0, 8.11.1, 8.11.2, 8.11.3, 8.11.4, 8.11.5, 8.12
Timeline
Official Publish:
March 9th, 2002
Last Modified:
August 8th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.