Slackware: Sendmail-8.12.9 Critical: Buffer Overflow Security Fix
slackware
March 30, 2003
The sendmail packages in Slackware 8.0, 8.1, and 9.0 have been patchedto fix a security problem
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Sat Mar 29 13:46:36 PST 2003 patches/packages/sendmail-8.12.9-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to sendmail-8.12.9. From sendmail's RELEASE_NOTES: 8.12.9/8.12.9 2003/03/29 SECURITY: Fix a buffer overflow in address parsing due to a char to int conversion problem which is potentially remotely exploitable. Problem found by Michal Zalewski. Note: an MTA that is not patched might be vulnerable to data that it receives from untrusted sources, which includes DNS. (* Security fix *) patches/packages/sendmail-cf-8.12.9-noarch-1.tgz: Updated config files for sendmail-8.12.9. WHERE TO FIND THE NEW PACKAGES: Updated packages for Slackware 8.0: Updated packages for Slackware 8.1: Updated packages for Slackware 9.0: MD5 SIGNATURES: Here are the md5sums for the packages: Slackware 8.0 packages: c29c3063313534bee8db13c5afcd1abc
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