CVE-1999-0130

CVSS 2.0 Score 7.2 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Nov 16, 1996
Updated: Nov 20, 2024

Summary

CVE-1999-0130 is a vulnerability affecting the Sendmail mail transfer agent. It permits local users to initiate Sendmail in daemon mode, exploiting a weakness in its setuid permissions. Successful exploitation grants the attacker root privileges, compromising the entire system. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to systems running Sendmail and requires immediate attention and patching to mitigate potential threats.

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Affected Products

  • HP-UX family of operating systems
  • FreeBSD
  • IBM AIX
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Affected Vendors

  • IBM Corporation
  • Red Hat
  • FreeBSD Project
  • HP