Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 2 public exploits for CVE-2002-1827. PoCs published by zillion.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Sendmail by acquiring exclusive locks on critical files required for its operation. The code forks a child process that locks three key files and enters an infinite loop, preventing Sendmail from accessing them.
Description
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.
Exploits (2)
This exploit demonstrates a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Sendmail by acquiring exclusive locks on critical files required for its operation. The code forks a child process that locks three key files and enters an infinite loop, preventing Sendmail from accessing them.
This exploit leverages a denial-of-service vulnerability in Sendmail by locking the /etc/mail/aliases.db file. The shellcode is designed to create an exclusive lock on the file, preventing Sendmail from accessing it and causing a DoS condition.