CVE-2002-1827

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Sendmail 8.9.0 through 8.12.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service by obtaining an exclusive lock on the (1) alias, (2) map, (3) statistics, and (4) pid files.

Sendmail 8.9.0 through 8.12.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service by obtaining an exclusive lock on the (1) alias, (2) map, (3) statistics, and (4) pid files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Sendmail Sendmail

First reported 22 years ago

2002-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:31:00

Affected Software

Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.0

8.9.0

Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.1

8.9.1

Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.2

8.9.2

Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.3

8.9.3

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 8.11.4

8.11.4

Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.5

8.11.5

Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.6

8.11.6

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 Beta10

8.12

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 Beta12

8.12

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 Beta16

8.12

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 Beta5

8.12

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta7

8.12

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.0

8.12.0

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.1

8.12.1

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.2

8.12.2

Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.3

8.12.3

References

20020524 Sendmail file locking - PoC

sendmail-file-locking-dos(9162)

4822

Exploit

http://www.sendmail.org/LockingAdvisory.txt

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