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.
Published: 2002-03-09
Score: 4.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2001-0639 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.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:30:05.999Z

Reserved: 2001-08-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-0653

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-09-20T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-0653

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Severity :

Publid Date: 2001-08-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2001-0653 - Bugzilla

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