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.
Published: 2003-04-01
Score: 10.0 Critical
EPSS: 67.9% High
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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References
Link Providers
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2003-016.0.txt cve-icon cve-icon
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail.asc cve-icon cve-icon
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2004.11/SCOSA-2004.11.txt cve-icon cve-icon
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20030401-01-P cve-icon cve-icon
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000614 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00028.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-March/004295.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104896621106790&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104897487512238&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104914999806315&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-52620-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-52700-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1001088.1-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-12.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-278 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-290 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200303-27.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/897604 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-120.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-121.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316961/30/25250/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/317135/30/25220/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/321997 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7230 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0161 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-0161 cve-icon
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.82724}

epss

{'score': 0.71952}


Subscriptions

Compaq Tru64
Hp Hp-ux Hp-ux Series 700 Hp-ux Series 800 Sis
Redhat Enterprise Linux Linux
Sendmail Sendmail Sendmail Switch
Sun Solaris Sunos
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:43:36.017Z

Reserved: 2003-03-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2003-0161

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2003-0161

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2003-03-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2003-0161 - Bugzilla

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