CVE-2003-0161
The prescan() function in the address parser (parseaddr.c) in Sendmail before 8.12.9 does not properly handle certain conversions from char and int types, which can cause a length check to be disabled when Sendmail misinterprets an input value as a special "NOCHAR" control value, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack using messages, a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-1337.
Scoring
- CVSS base score
- 2.72
- EPSS probability
- 67.90%
- Published
- 2003-04-01
- Last modified
- 2026-03-16
Affected products
- n/a n/a