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critical 10.0

CVE-2002-1337 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in Sendmail 5.79 to 8.12.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain formatted address fields, related…

published 2003-03-07 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1321

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
72.6%
EPSS 72.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
3
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in Sendmail 5.79 to 8.12.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain formatted address fields, related to sender and recipient header comments as processed by the crackaddr function of headers.c.

Patch / fix

  • sendmail sendmail 8.9.3, 8.11.6, 8.12.8
  • sendmail Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8.13.0.PreAlpha4-0

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1337

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2002-1337 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:074
  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0 Red Hat Linux 7.1 Red Hat Linux 7.2 Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:073
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:074

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-411)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

72.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-22314 Sendmail 8.12.x - Header Processing Buffer Overflow (2) remote, 2003-03-02
  • EDB-22313 Sendmail 8.12.x - Header Processing Buffer Overflow (1) remote, 2003-03-02
  • EDB-411 Sendmail 8.11.x (Linux/i386) - Local Privilege Escalation local, 2001-01-01
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6991 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Sources

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