CVE-2002-1827

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-1827
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-12-31 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionSendmail 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

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

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.10 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.10.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.10.2 All All All
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 8.11.6 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
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.0 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.12.3 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.0 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.1 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.2 All All All
Application Sendmail Sendmail 8.9.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Sendmail File Locking Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit
Sendmail Sentrion Open Source - Open Source Email Server | Proofpoint af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.sendmail.org Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus HOME Mailing List: BugTraq af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 online.securityfocus.com
ISS X-Force Database: sendmail-file-locking-dos (9162): Sendmail file locking denial of service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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