CVE-2002-2261 (GCVE-0-2002-2261)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-10-18 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Sendmail 8.9.0 through 8.12.6 allows remote attackers to bypass relaying restrictions enforced by the 'check_relay' function by spoofing a blank DNS hostname.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://securitytracker.com/id?1005748 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advis… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SGI |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6548 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/7826 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
Date Public
2002-12-03 00:00
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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