Sendmail Signal Error Memory Corruption Vulnerability
8
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
03/22/2006
07/25/2018
06/15/2006
02/13/2015
Description
Certain versions of Sendmail mishandle signals resulting from client-supplied data. A remote attacker can take advantage of this weakness to corrupt the signal handler and execute arbitrary code under the privileges of the sendmail daemon.
Solution(s)
- sendmail-upgrade-8_13_6
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