CVE-1999-0131

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow and denial of service in Sendmail 8.7.5 and earlier through GECOS field gives root access to local users.

Buffer overflow and denial of service in Sendmail 8.7.5 and earlier through GECOS field gives root access to local users.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 28 years ago

1996-09-11 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-09 12:33:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 2.1.5

2.1.5

HP HP-UX 10.01

10.01

HP HP-UX 10.10

10.10

HP HP-UX 10.20

10.20

IBM AIX 3.2

3.2

IBM AIX 4.1

4.1

IBM AIX 4.2

4.2

Red Hat Linux 3.0.3

3.0.3

References

717

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