CVE-2001-0653: Sendmail

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sendmail 8.10.0 through 8.11.5, and 8.12.0 beta, allows local users to modify process memory and possibly gain privileges via a large value in the 'category' part of debugger (-d) command line arguments, which is interpreted as a negative number.

Affected products

• Sendmail Sendmail: version 8.11.0 only; version 8.11.1 only; version 8.11.2 only; version 8.11.3 only; version 8.11.4 only; version 8.11.5 only; …

Published 2001-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.