GLSA: sendmail (200309-13)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
- - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200309-13
- - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
PACKAGE : sendmail
SUMMARY : buffer overflows
DATE : 2003-09-17 20:52 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <sendmail-8.2.10
FIXED VERSION : >=sendmail-8.2.10
CVE :
- - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
quote from release notes:
"Fix a buffer overflow in address parsing. Problem detected by
Michal Zalewski, patch from Todd C. Miller of Courtesan Consulting.
Fix a potential buffer overflow in ruleset parsing. This problem
is not exploitable in the default sendmail configuration;
only if non-standard rulesets recipient (2), final (4), or
mailer-specific envelope recipients rulesets are used then
a problem may occur. Problem noted by Timo Sirainen."
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/sendmail upgrade to sendmail-8.2.10 as follows:
emerge sync
emerge sendmail
emerge clean
- - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
aliz@xxxxxxxxxx - GnuPG key is available at http://dev.gentoo.org/~aliz
- - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQE/aMmXfT7nyhUpoZMRAoyYAJwOr62OQN3G+SXYMC5QXPuU2EjYbACcCfVL
rSrMrf+lRPq9Nqh+pa18i8A=
=c+4s
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----