CVE-2001-0653

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Summary

CVECVE-2001-0653
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2001-09-20 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionSendmail 8.10.0 through 8.11.5, and 8.12.0 beta, allows local users to modify process memory and possibly gain privileges via a large value in the 'category' part of debugger (-d) command line arguments, which is interpreted as a negative number.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.0 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.3 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.4 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.11.5 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta10 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta12 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta16 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta5 All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12 beta7 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-032-01 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 download.immunix.org
404 Page Not Found | SUSE af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Home - Conectiva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 distro.conectiva.com.br
Xinuos Inc. | Support | Security | Advisories | Document Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.calderasystems.com
www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www1.itrc.hp.com
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-017.txt.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.netbsd.org
MandrakeSoft Security Advisory MDKSA-2001:075 : Sendmail af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.linux-mandrake.com
'*ALERT* UPDATED BID 3163 (URGENCY 6.58): Sendmail Debugger Arbitrary' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Sendmail - 8.11.6 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.sendmail.org
Sendmail Debugger Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Sendmail Debugger Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ciac.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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