Vulnerability Report

CVE-2003-0694

Title: Sendmail prescan buffer overflow RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2003-0694.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Oct 06, 2003
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
66.18%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2003-0694: The prescan function in Sendmail 8.12.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via buffer overflow attacks, as demonstrated using the parseaddr function in parseaddr.c.

Impacted Vendors

E
eric_allman 1
M
metainfo 1
S
sendmail 4
R
redhat 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2004.11/SCOSA-2004.11.txt http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2003-q3/4119.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/0113.html http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000742 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106381604923204&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106382859407683&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106383437615742&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106398718909274&w=2 http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-25.html http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-384 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/784980 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:092 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-283.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-284.html http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.10.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2975 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A572 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A603 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2004.11/SCOSA-2004.11.txt http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2003-q3/4119.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/0113.html http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000742 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106381604923204&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106382859407683&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106383437615742&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106398718909274&w=2 http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-25.html http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-384 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/784980 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:092 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-283.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-284.html http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.10.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2975 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A572 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A603
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
10.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2003-0694 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.