CVE-2001-0653

MediumCVSS 4.6/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.6/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Sep 20, 2001
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2001-0653: Medium severity, CVSS 4.6 | Vulnix