From aliz@gentoo.org Wed Mar 5 00:18:42 2003 From: Daniel Ahlberg To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:12:58 +0100 Subject: [Full-Disclosure] GLSA: sendmail (200303-4) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-4 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : sendmail SUMMARY : remote root exploit DATE : 2003-03-04 10:12 UTC EXPLOIT : remote VERSIONS AFFECTED : <8.12.8 FIXED VERSION : =>8.12.8 CVE : CAN-2002-1337 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - From advisory: "Attackers may remotely exploit this vulnerability to gain "root" or superuser control of any vulnerable Sendmail server. Sendmail and all other email servers are typically exposed to the Internet in order to send and receive Internet email. Vulnerable Sendmail servers will not be protected by legacy security devices such as firewalls and/or packet filters. This vulnerability is especially dangerous because the exploit can be delivered within an email message and the attacker doesn't need any specific knowledge of the target to launch a successful attack." Read the full advisory at: http://www.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21950 SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-mail/sendmail upgrade to sendmail-8.12.8 as follows: emerge sync emerge -u sendmail emerge clean - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ZHwhfT7nyhUpoZMRAh+bAJ4yX5o69EZxFoch2UeGChysnP4ItwCbBqec Kfwwgu9H1hfXnArVUBTmZtY= =cliQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html