CVE-2014-3956 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3956?

CVE-2014-3956 is a low-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 4 Jun 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3956?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Freebsd Freebsd, Hp Hpux, Sendmail Sendmail.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3956?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-3956 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3956 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3956, GHSA-frwj-4rf4-3wjf, MGASA-2014-0270, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3956.