Sendmail before 8.12.1 does not properly drop privileges when the -C option is used to load custom configuration files, which allows local users to gain privileges via malformed arguments in the configuration file whose names contain characters with the high bit set, such as (1) macro names that are one character long, (2) a variable setting which is processed by the setoption function, or (3) a Modifiers setting which is processed by the getmodifiers function.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-10-12T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:30:06.076Z

Reserved: 2001-09-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2001-0713

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2001-10-30T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2008-09-05T20:24:45.287

Link: CVE-2001-0713

cve-icon Redhat

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