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Debian Security Advisory DSA 278-1 (sendmail)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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 278-1.

Insight

Insight

Michal Zalewski discovered a buffer overflow, triggered by a char to int conversion, in the address parsing code in sendmail, a widely used powerful, efficient, and scalable mail transport agent. This problem is potentially remotely exploitable. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 8.12.3-6.2. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 8.9.3-26. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 8.12.9-1. We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20278-1

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