CVE-1999-1580
SunOS sendmail 5.59 through 5.65 uses popen to process a forwarding host argument, which allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the IFS (Internal Field Separator) variable and passing crafted values to the -oR option.
- Affected products
- Sendmail
- Sendmail
- = 5.59, 5.61, 5.65
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.2 HIGH
- EPSS
- 1.1% (63th percentile)
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-04-21
CVE-1999-1580 at NVD
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