[4962] in RedHat Linux List
Re: SECURITY: Important fix for sendmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Mon Nov 18 11:15:26 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:12:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199611181530.QAA23162@minnie.xos.nl>
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On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Jos Vos wrote:
> If this new revision (8.7.6-5) just includes an extra patch: can this
> patch be posted separately to this list, so that everybody running
> some 8.7.x sendmail with Red Hat 3.0.3 can regenerate the sendmail
> package without the need to extract the patch from the 4.0 SRPM (which
> is some work, given the new RPM format, etcetera)?
Sure, here it is:
--- sendmail-8.7.6/src/main.c.moron Mon Nov 18 09:43:47 1996
+++ sendmail-8.7.6/src/main.c Mon Nov 18 09:44:03 1996
@@ -1697,6 +1697,8 @@
syslog(LOG_INFO, "restarting %s on signal", SaveArgv[0]);
#endif
releasesignal(SIGHUP);
+ (void) setgid(RealGid);
+ (void) setuid(RealUid);
execv(SaveArgv[0], (ARGV_T) SaveArgv);
#ifdef LOG
if (LogLevel > 0)
Erik
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