CVE-2002-0906

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in Sendmail before 8.12.5, when configured to use a custom DNS map to query TXT records, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malicious DNS server.

Buffer overflow in Sendmail before 8.12.5, when configured to use a custom DNS map to query TXT records, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malicious DNS server.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Sendmail Sendmail

First reported 22 years ago

2002-10-04 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:30:00

Affected Software

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.0

8.12.0

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.1

8.12.1

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.3

8.12.3

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.4

8.12.4

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