DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0161

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2003-0161
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0161.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0161
Upstream
Published
2003-04-02T05:00:00Z
Modified
2025-11-19T02:02:45.986028Z
Summary
[none]
Details

The prescan() function in the address parser (parseaddr.c) in Sendmail before 8.12.9 does not properly handle certain conversions from char and int types, which can cause a length check to be disabled when Sendmail misinterprets an input value as a special "NOCHAR" control value, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack using messages, a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-1337.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / sendmail

Package

Name
sendmail
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sendmail?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.12.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0161.json"

Debian:12 / sendmail

Package

Name
sendmail
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sendmail?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.12.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0161.json"

Debian:13 / sendmail

Package

Name
sendmail
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sendmail?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.12.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0161.json"

Debian:14 / sendmail

Package

Name
sendmail
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sendmail?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.12.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0161.json"