Bug 1616990 (CVE-2003-0161) - CVE-2003-0161 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2003-0161 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2003-0161
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-08-16 02:26 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 02:26:21 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 02:26:14 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 17:36:28 UTC 
MITRE description:

The prescan() function in the address parser (parseaddr.c) in Sendmail before 8.12.9 does not properly handle certain conversions from char and int types, which can cause a length check to be disabled when Sendmail misinterprets an input value as a special "NOCHAR" control value, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack using messages, a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-1337.
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