CVE-2003-0161 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2003-0161

The prescan() function in the address parser (parseaddr.c) in Sendmail...

Vulnerability Description

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.

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

sendmail, sendmail switch, tru64, hp-ux, hp-ux series 700, hp-ux series 800, sis, solaris, sunos
Vulnerable Versions:
2.6, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 8.9.0, 8.9.1, 8.9.2, 8.9.3, 8.10, 8.10.1, 8.10.2, 8.11.0, 8.11.1, 8.11.2, 8.11.3, 8.11.4, 8.11.5, 8.11.6, 8.12, 8.12.0, 8.12.1, 8.12.2, 8.12.3, 8.12.4, 8.12.5, 8.12.6, 8.12.7, 8.12.8, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 4.0b, 4.0d, 4.0d_pk9_bl17, 4.0f, 4.0f_pk6_bl17, 4.0f_pk7_bl18, 4.0g, 4.0g_pk3_bl17, 5.0, 5.0_pk4_bl17, 5.0_pk4_bl18, 5.0a, 5.0a_pk3_bl17, 5.0f, 5.1, 5.1_pk3_bl17, 5.1_pk4_bl18, 5.1_pk5_bl19, 5.1_pk6_bl20, 5.1a, 5.1a_pk1_bl1, 5.1a_pk2_bl2, 5.1a_pk3_bl3, 5.1b, 5.1b_pk1_bl1, 10.00, 10.01, 10.08, 10.09, 10.10, 10.16, 10.20, 10.24, 10.26, 10.30, 10.34, 11.00, 11.0.4, 11.11, 11.20, 11.22, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.7, 5.8

Timeline

Official Publish: April 1st, 2003
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.