CVE-2000-0545: Sgi Mailx

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Sgi Mailx: version 3 only; version 4 only; version 5 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only; …

Published 2000-08-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.