Published: 08/08/2000 Updated: 10/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 470

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Buffer overflow in mailx mail command (aka Mail) on Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges via a long -c (carbon copy) parameter.

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/* source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1305/info Some Linux distributions ship with BSD mailx 811-10 (On Slackware 7x it can be found as /usr/bin/Mail) A vulnerability exists in the 'mail' program, part of the Berkeley mailx package The 'mail' program contains a buffer overflow condition that is present when the -c parameter is used a ...

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1305/info Some Linux distributions ship with BSD mailx 811-10 (On Slackware 7x it can be found as /usr/bin/Mail) A vulnerability exists in the 'mail' program, part of the Berkeley mailx package The 'mail' program contains a buffer overflow condition that is present when the -c parameter is used at the ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0435.html http://www.debian.org/security/2000/20000605 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1305 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19992/

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