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[OpenPKG-SA-2006.007] OpenPKG Security Advisory (sendmail)

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OpenPKG Security Advisory                            The OpenPKG Project
http://www.openpkg.org/security.html              http://www.openpkg.org
openpkg-security@xxxxxxxxxxx                         openpkg@xxxxxxxxxxx
OpenPKG-SA-2006.007                                          22-Mar-2006
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Package:             sendmail
Vulnerability:       remote code execution
OpenPKG Specific:    no

Affected Releases:   Affected Packages:          Corrected Packages:
OpenPKG CURRENT      <= sendmail-8.13.5-20060219 >= sendmail-8.13.6-20060322
OpenPKG 2.5          <= sendmail-8.13.5-2.5.0    >= sendmail-8.13.5-2.5.1
OpenPKG 2.4          <= sendmail-8.13.4-2.4.0    >= sendmail-8.13.4-2.4.1
OpenPKG 2.3          <= sendmail-8.13.3-2.3.0    >= sendmail-8.13.3-2.3.1

Description:
  According to a vendor security advisory [0] based on research by from
  Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force, a vulnerability exists in the Sendmail MTA
  [1]. Under some specific timing conditions, the vulnerability may
  permit a specifically crafted attack to take over the "sendmail"
  MTA process, allowing remote attackers to execute commands and run
  arbitrary programs on the system running the MTA, affecting email
  delivery, or tampering with other programs and data on this system.
  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id
  CVE-2006-0058 [2] to the problem.
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References:
  [0] http://www.sendmail.com/company/advisory/index.shtml 
  [1] http://www.sendmail.org/
  [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0058
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