CVE-2002-1827: Sendmail

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sendmail 8.9.0 through 8.12.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service by obtaining an exclusive lock on the (1) alias, (2) map, (3) statistics, and (4) pid files.

Affected products

• Sendmail Sendmail: version 8.9.0 only; version 8.9.1 only; version 8.9.2 only; version 8.9.3 only; version 8.10 only; version 8.10.1 only; …

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.