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

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• procmail procmailup to 3.20 inclusive

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2017-16844Heap-based buffer overflow in the loadbuf function in formisc.c in formail in procmail 3.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of ser
  43Plan
• CVE-2014-3618Heap-based buffer overflow in formisc.c in formail in procmail 3.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibl
  33Monitor
• CVE-1999-0439Buffer overflow in procmail before version 3.12 allows remote or local attackers to execute commands via expansions in the procmailrc config
  31Monitor
• CVE-1999-0475A race condition in how procmail handles .procmailrc files allows a local user to read arbitrary files available to the user who is running
  4Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Attack context

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