CVE-2001-0653

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2001-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Sendmail 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.

Affected products

Sendmail: 8.11.0, 8.11.1, 8.11.2, 8.11.3, 8.11.4, 8.11.5 (+5)

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000412
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-032-01
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99841063100516&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2001-106.html
http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-032.0.txt
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-133.shtml
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-075.php3
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_028_sendmail_txt.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3163
http://www.sendmail.org/8.11.html
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBTL0112-007

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