Sendmail before 8.12.1 does not properly drop privileges when the -C option is used to load custom configuration files, which allows local users to gain privileges via malformed arguments in the configuration file whose names contain characters with the high bit set, such as (1) macro names that are one character long, (2) a variable setting which is processed by the setoption function, or (3) a Modifiers setting which is processed by the getmodifiers function.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2001-10-12T04:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-08T04:30:06.076Z
Reserved: 2001-09-25T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2001-0713
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2001-10-30T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2001-0713
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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