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Slackware: SSA:2003-260-02 Moderate: Sendmail Remote Exploit Alert

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Calendar Grey September 17, 2003
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Multiple vulnerabilities in Sendmail have been resolved in Slackware versions 8.1 and 9.0. It is recommended to perform upgrades for any servers running Sendmail.
There are multiple vulnerabilities in the sendmail package.

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Wed Sep 17 10:10:26 PDT 2003 patches/packages/sendmail-8.12.10-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to sendmail-8.12.10. This fixes security issues as noted in Sendmail's RELEASE_NOTES: "SECURITY: 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." We recommend that sites running Sendmail upgrade immediately. (* Security fix *) patches/packages/sendmail-cf-8.12.10-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to config files for sendmail-8.12.10. WHERE TO FIND THE NEW PACKAGES: Updated packages for Slackware 8.1:

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