CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1580

Published: Aug 23, 1995 | Modified: Sep 05, 2008
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

SunOS sendmail 5.59 through 5.65 uses popen to process a forwarding host argument, which allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the IFS (Internal Field Separator) variable and passing crafted values to the -oR option.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Sendmail Sendmail 5.59 (including) 5.59 (including)
Sendmail Sendmail 5.61 (including) 5.61 (including)
Sendmail Sendmail 5.65 (including) 5.65 (including)

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