{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0161","details":"The prescan() function in the address parser (parseaddr.c) in Sendmail before 8.12.9 does not properly handle certain conversions from char and int types, which can cause a length check to be disabled when Sendmail misinterprets an input value as a special \"NOCHAR\" control value, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack using messages, a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-1337.","modified":"2026-09-01T20:00:40.432129457Z","published":"2003-04-02T05:00:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2003-0161"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2003-0161"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"sendmail","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/sendmail?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.12.9-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0161.json"}},{"package":{"name":"sendmail","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/sendmail?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.12.9-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0161.json"}},{"package":{"name":"sendmail","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/sendmail?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.12.9-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0161.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}