debian · CVE-2014-3956

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Priority: low Published: Updated: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:59:42 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2014-3956 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (sendmail), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

The sm_close_on_exec function in conf.c in sendmail before 8.14.9 has arguments in the wrong order, and consequently skips setting expected FD_CLOEXEC flags, which allows local users to access unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program.

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