Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.

CVE-2001-0653 Details

Description

Sendmail 8.10.0 through 8.11.5, and 8.12.0 beta, allows local users to modify process memory and possibly gain privileges via a large value in the 'category' part of debugger (-d) command line arguments, which is interpreted as a negative number.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-017.txt.asc	CVE
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000412	CVE
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-032-01	CVE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99841063100516&w=2	CVE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2001-106.html	CVE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7016	CVE
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBTL0112-007	CVE
http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-032.0.txt	CVE
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-133.shtml	CVE
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-075.php3	CVE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_028_sendmail_txt.html	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3163	CVE	ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.sendmail.org/8.11.html	CVE
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-017.txt.asc	[email protected]
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000412	[email protected]
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-032-01	[email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99841063100516&w=2	[email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2001-106.html	[email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7016	[email protected]
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBTL0112-007	[email protected]
http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-032.0.txt	[email protected]
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-133.shtml	[email protected]
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-075.php3	[email protected]
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_028_sendmail_txt.html	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3163	[email protected]	ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.sendmail.org/8.11.html	[email protected]

see all 26 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
sendmail sendmail	8.11.0 8.11.1 8.11.2 8.11.3 8.11.4
CPE cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta10:::::: cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta12:::::: cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta16:::::: cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta5:::::: cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta7:::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Product

Versions

sendmail sendmail

8.11.0

8.11.1

8.11.2

8.11.3

8.11.4

CPE

cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.11.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta10:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta12:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta16:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.12:beta7:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 16, 2026		[email protected]
Nov 20, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 3, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 18, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jan 1, 2004	Initial Analysis	[email protected]