Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1580

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-04-21 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-01 17:18:07
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.