VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2001-0653

CVSS score4.6 MEDIUM

EPSS probability1.18%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2001-09-20

Last modified2026-06-16

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.