Eric Allman vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

Vendor
The short answer

Eric Allman has 15 published vulnerabilities across 2 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Sendmail, with 14. If you run Eric Allman software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Eric Allman products have the most vulnerabilities?

Sendmail leads with 14 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Sendmail14
  2. Vacation1
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Eric Allman vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Eric Allman's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Eric Allman flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 16%

    The debug command in Sendmail is enabled, allowing attackers to execute commands as root.

    CVSS10.0Published1 Oct 1988
  2. 8.8%

    Sendmail 8.6.9 allows remote attackers to execute root commands, using ident.

    CVSS10.0Published1 Jan 1997
  3. 8.2%

    Vacation program allows command execution by remote users through a sendmail command.

    CVSS7.5Published16 Nov 1998
  4. 3.1%

    MIME conversion buffer overflow in sendmail versions 8.8.3 and 8.8.4.

    CVSS10.0Published28 Jan 1997
  5. 2.4%

    Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Sendmail 8.8.x and 8.9.2 by sending messages with a large number of headers.

    CVSS5.0Published1 Jan 1999
  6. 2.1%

    In Sendmail, attackers can gain root privileges via SMTP by specifying an improper "mail from" address and an invalid "rcpt to" address that would cause the mail to bounce to a program.

    CVSS10.0Published17 Aug 1995
  7. 1.9%

    MIME buffer overflow in Sendmail 8.8.0 and 8.8.1 gives root access.

    CVSS10.0Published1 Oct 1996
  8. 1.8%

    mail.local in Sendmail 8.10.x does not properly identify the .\n string which identifies the end of message text, which allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or corrupt mailboxes via a message line...

    CVSS5.0Published23 Apr 2000
  9. 1.3%

    Denial of service in Sendmail 8.6.11 and 8.6.12.

    CVSS5.0Published1 Jan 1999
  10. 1.1%

    Local users can start Sendmail in daemon mode and gain root privileges.

    CVSS7.2Published16 Nov 1996
Every product

All Eric Allman products we track.

1 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

This directory lists the 1 Eric Allman products with at least one tracked version, of 2 in our catalogue.

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Our catalogue lists 15 published vulnerabilities across 2 products and 26 versions from Eric Allman.

None of Eric Allman's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Sendmail, with 14 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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