[27417] in bugtraq
GLSA: sendmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Ahlberg)
Mon Oct 14 18:36:03 2002
From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:48:21 +0200
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-Id: <20021013144403.2E74E3372D@mail1.tamperd.net>
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE :sendmail
SUMMARY :smsrh bypass vulnerabilites
DATE :2002-10-13 14:45 UTC
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It is possible for an attacker to bypass the restrictions imposed by
The Sendmail Consortium’s Restricted Shell (SMRSH) and execute a
binary of his choosing by inserting a special character sequence into
his .forward file.
Read the full advisory at
http://www.sendmail.org/smrsh.adv.txt
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/sendmail-8.12.6 and earlier update their systems
as follows:
emerge rsync
emerge sendmail
emerge clean
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