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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1155-2 (sendmail)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to sendmail announced via advisory DSA 1155-2. It turned out that the sendmail binary depends on libsasl2 (>= 2.1.19.dfsg1) which is neither available in the stable nor in the the security archive. This version is scheduled for the inclusion in the next update of the stable release, though. You'll have to download the referenced file for your architecture from below and install it with dpkg -i. As an alternative, temporarily adding the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list will mitigate the problem as well: deb http://ftp.debian.de/debian stable-proposed-updates main Here is the original security advisory for completeness: Frank Sheiness discovered that a MIME conversion routine in sendmail, a powerful, efficient, and scalable mail transport agent, could be tricked by a specially crafted mail to perform an endless recursion.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 8.13.4-3sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 8.13.7-1. We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201155-2

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