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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1309

Published: Aug 30, 1996 | Modified: Nov 20, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1309
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Sendmail before 8.6.7 allows local users to gain root access via a large value in the debug (-d) command line option.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Sendmail Sendmail * 8.6.7 (including)

References

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