Gentoo: 200512-05 High: Xmail Sendmail Buffer Overflow Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200512-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Xmail: Privilege escalation through sendmail Date: December 14, 2005 Bugs: #109381 ID: 200512-05

Synopsis ======= The sendmail program in Xmail is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, potentially resulting in local privilege escalation.
Background ========= Xmail is an Internet and intranet mail server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-mta/xmail < 1.22 >= 1.22
========== iDEFENSE reported that the AddressFromAtPtr function in the sendmail program fails to check bounds on arguments passed from other functions, and as a result an expl...