[29566] in bugtraq
GLSA: sendmail (200303-27)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Ahlberg)
Mon Mar 31 18:30:40 2003
From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:13:58 +0200
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-Id: <20030331091358.7CDB033A01@mail1.tamperd.net>
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-27
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PACKAGE : sendmail
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-03-31 09:13 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <8.12.9
FIXED VERSION : >=8.12.9
CVE : CAN-2003-0161
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- From advisory:
"There is a vulnerability in sendmail that can be exploited to cause
a denial-of-service condition and could allow a remote attacker to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sendmail
daemon, typically root."
Read the full advisory at
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-12.html
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/sendmail upgrade to sendmail-8.12.9 as follows:
emerge sync
emerge sendmail
emerge clean
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