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Gentoo GLSA 200603-21 High Severity: Sendmail Race Condition Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 22, 2006
Scroller Gentoo
Gentoo GLSA 202303-15: Critical advisory regarding a critical vulnerability in OpenSSH that permits unauthorized command execution.
Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with sendmail privileges.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200603-21 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Sendmail: Race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals Date: March 22, 2006 Bugs: #125623 ID: 200603-21

Synopsis ======= Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with sendmail privileges.
Background ========= Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent (MTA).
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-mta/sendmail < 8.13.6 >= 8.13.6
========== ISS discovered that Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals.
Impact ===== An attacker could ex...

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