CVE-2001-0905

Published Oct 18, 2001

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: Race condition in signal handling of procmail 3.20 and earlier, when running setuid, allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges by sending a signal while a signal handling routine is already running.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.2
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 1.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:procmail:procmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "6C16592E-B822-4941-8F39-F668E6E5D40E",
            "versionEndIncluding": "3.20"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References