Bug 86604 - New sendmail root exploit
Summary: New sendmail root exploit
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: sendmail
Version: 2.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-26 11:08 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-04-01 07:49:11 UTC
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Description Mark J. Cox 2003-03-26 11:08:29 UTC 
There is a vulnerability in Sendmail versions 8.12.8 and prior. The
address parser performs insufficient bounds checking in certain conditions
due to a char to int conversion, making it possible for an attacker to
take control of the application. Although no exploit currently exists,
this issue is probably locally exploitable and may be remotely exploitable.

Not public before April 14
Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2003-03-30 09:43:46 UTC 
Just to update bug, became public on Mar30 through full-disclosure list
Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2003-04-01 07:49:11 UTC 
Fixed by RHSA-2003:121
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