CVE-2001-1349

Severity

37%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

106%

Sendmail before 8.11.4, and 8.12.0 before 8.12.0.Beta10, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly corrupt the heap and gain privileges via race conditions in signal handlers.

Sendmail before 8.11.4, and 8.12.0 before 8.12.0.Beta10, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly corrupt the heap and gain privileges via race conditions in signal handlers.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Sendmail Sendmail

First reported 24 years ago

2001-05-28 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:26:00

Affected Software

Sendmail Sendmail 8.10

8.10

Sendmail Sendmail 8.10.1

8.10.1

Sendmail Sendmail 8.10.2

8.10.2

Sendmail Sendmail 8.11

8.11.0

Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.1

8.11.1

Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.2

8.11.2

Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.3

8.11.3

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta7

8.12

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sendmail/2001-q2/0001.html

20010528 Unsafe Signal Handling in Sendmail

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2001:106

sendmail-signal-handling(6633)

20010529 sendmail 8.11.4 and 8.12.0.Beta10 available (fwd)

Vendor Advisory

2794

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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