CVE-2014-3956

Publication date

2014-06-04 10:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The sm_close_on_exec function in conf.c in sendmail before 8.14.9 has arguments in the wrong order, and consequently skips setting expected FD_CLOEXEC flags, which allows local users to access unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program.