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Sendmail Vulnerability: CVE-2003-0681

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Sendmail Vulnerability: CVE-2003-0681

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/06/2003
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/05/2014
Modified
06/05/2014

Description

A "potential buffer overflow in ruleset parsing" for Sendmail 8.12.9, when using the nonstandard rulesets (1) recipient (2), final, or (3) mailer-specific envelope recipients, has unknown consequences.

Solution(s)

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