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CVE DATABASE  /  CVE-2002-1337

CVE-2002-1337

CVSS 10 · HIGH

Summary

Buffer overflow in Sendmail 5.79 to 8.12.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain formatted address fields, related to sender and recipient header comments as processed by the crackaddr function of headers.c.

CVSS 2.0 breakdown

Base score10 (HIGH)
VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Attack vectorNETWORK
Attack complexityLOW
ConfidentialityCOMPLETE
IntegrityCOMPLETE
AvailabilityCOMPLETE

Weakness type (CWE)

Affected products

Sendmail sendmailHp alphaserver scGentoo linuxHp hp-uxNetbsd netbsdOracle solarisSun sunosWindriver bsdosWindriver platform sa
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References

Data: NIST NVD. NVD last modified 2026-04-16. Always verify against the vendor advisory before acting.

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