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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2003-0681 in the critical feed json

A "potential buffer overflow in ruleset parsing" for Sendmail 8.12.9, when using the nonstandard rulesets (1) recipient (2), final, or (3)…

published 2003-09-18 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0672

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
22.4%
EPSS 22.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

A "potential buffer overflow in ruleset parsing" for Sendmail 8.12.9, when using the nonstandard rulesets (1) recipient (2), final, or (3) mailer-specific envelope recipients, has unknown consequences.

Patch / fix

  • sendmail Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8.12.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0681

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-2003-0681 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 7.1 Red Hat Linux 7.2 Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0 Red Hat Linux 9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:283

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-23154)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

22.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-23154 Sendmail 8.12.9 - 'Prescan()' Variant Remote Buffer Overrun remote, 2003-09-17

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.