01 Record
CVE-2001-0905
Race condition in signal handling of procmail 3.20 and earlier, when running setuid, allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges by sending a signal while a signal handling
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Race condition in signal handling of procmail 3.20 and earlier, when running setuid, allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges by sending a signal while a signal handling
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.32% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 24.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2002-06-25 04:00Z24 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 04:37Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2002-01-31
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- a2351e2229bad504e3f24172e1ae01df77457e3ad97dee33578b3f2a851897b0
05 Affected products
06 References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comprocmail-signal-handling-race(6872)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6872
- ftp.freebsd.orgFreeBSD-SA-01:60ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:60.procmail.asc
- www.securityfocus.com3071http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3071
- distro.conectiva.com.brCLA-2001:433http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000433
- www.linux-mandrake.comMDKSA-2001:085http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-085.php3
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2001:093http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-093.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-083http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-083