Sendmail GID Privilege Dropping Failure
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
10/30/2001
07/25/2018
04/12/2005
12/04/2013
Description
Sendmail v8.12.0 does not properly drop its setgid privileges after performing its necessary setup functions. As a result, if an attacker exploits a buffer overflow and executes code in Sendmail's process, he/she could re-gain the effective group ID.
Solution(s)
- sendmail-upgrade-8_12_1
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