National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2002-1278
Orirignal release date: 2002-11-12
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The mailconf module in Linuxconf 1.24, and other versions before 1.28, on Conectiva Linux 6.0 through 8, and possibly other distributions, generates the Sendmail configuration file (sendmail.cf) in a way that configures Sendmail to run as an open mail relay, which allows remote attackers to send Spam email.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input,config
    Impact Type: sec_prot other="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Linuxconf (Jacques Gelinas)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-1278