The prescan function in Sendmail 8.12.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via buffer overflow attacks, as demonstrated using the parseaddr function in parseaddr.c.
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oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A603