1.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-3956

Published: 04/06/2014 Updated: 29/12/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.9 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 169
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

The sm_close_on_exec function in conf.c in sendmail prior to 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.

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freebsd freebsd

hp hpux

fedoraproject fedora 20

sendmail sendmail 8.7.7

sendmail sendmail 8.7.8

sendmail sendmail 8.10

sendmail sendmail 8.10.0

sendmail sendmail 8.10.1

sendmail sendmail 8.7.9

sendmail sendmail 8.8.8

sendmail sendmail 8.10.2

sendmail sendmail 8.11.0

sendmail sendmail 8.11.5

sendmail sendmail 8.11.6

sendmail sendmail 8.12.3

sendmail sendmail 8.12.4

sendmail sendmail 8.14.7

sendmail sendmail 8.14.6

sendmail sendmail 8.14.5

sendmail sendmail 8.13.7

sendmail sendmail 8.13.6

sendmail sendmail 8.11.7

sendmail sendmail 8.12.0

sendmail sendmail 8.12.5

sendmail sendmail 8.12.6

sendmail sendmail 8.14.4

sendmail sendmail 8.14.3

sendmail sendmail 8.13.5

sendmail sendmail 8.13.4

sendmail sendmail 8.6.7

sendmail sendmail 8.9.0

sendmail sendmail 8.9.1

sendmail sendmail 8.11.1

sendmail sendmail 8.11.2

sendmail sendmail 8.12.1

sendmail sendmail 8.12.10

sendmail sendmail 8.12.7

sendmail sendmail 8.12.8

sendmail sendmail 8.14.2

sendmail sendmail 8.14.1

sendmail sendmail 8.13.3

sendmail sendmail 8.13.2

sendmail sendmail 8.7.10

sendmail sendmail 8.7.6

sendmail sendmail 8.9.2

sendmail sendmail 8.9.3

sendmail sendmail 8.11.3

sendmail sendmail 8.11.4

sendmail sendmail 8.12.11

sendmail sendmail 8.12.2

sendmail sendmail 8.12.9

sendmail sendmail

sendmail sendmail 8.14.0

sendmail sendmail 8.13.8

sendmail sendmail 8.13.1

sendmail sendmail 8.13.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #750562 sendmail: CVE-2014-3956 Package: sendmail; Maintainer for sendmail is Debian QA Group <packages@qadebianorg>; Source for sendmail is src:sendmail (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutilorg> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 14:03:07 UTC Severity: grave Tags: securit ...
The sm_close_on_exec function in confc in sendmail before 8149 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 ...