Sendmail Vulnerability: CVE-1999-1580
7
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
08/23/1995
07/25/2018
06/05/2014
05/09/2019
Description
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.
Solution(s)
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