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SENDMAIL 8.7 SECURITY ALERT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex)
Sun Sep 24 11:45:19 1995

Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 09:26:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex <alex@bach.cis.temple.edu>
To: Linux Security Mailing List <linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>
cc: Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>, Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>,
        Russ DeFlavia <russ@tarkus.ocis.temple.edu>,
        ray@thunder.ocis.temple.edu,
        John Fowler <fowler@falcon.cis.temple.edu>,
        ikoniak@falcon.cis.temple.edu, bishop@cs.ucdavis.edu


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	Accoring to CERT Coordinator Sendmail 8.7 released during LISA'9 
re-introduces old stack overflow security bug. The bug was discovered 
within 2 hours after 8.7 was released. From what I know, there is no CERT 
advisory about it yet.

Best wishes,
Alex


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