Sendmail Signal Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19342
Release Date: 2006-03-23
Popularity: 24,234 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sendmail Sentrion 1.x

Software:Intelligent Quarantine 3.x
Sendmail 8.x
Sendmail Managed MTA 2.x
Sendmail Managed MTA 3.x
Sendmail Message Store/SAMS 1.x
Sendmail Message Store/SAMS 2.x
Sendmail Multi-Switch 2.x
Sendmail Multi-Switch 3.x
Sendmail Switch 2.x
Sendmail Switch 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0058


Description:
ISS X-Force has reported a vulnerability in Sendmail, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a signal handling error when receiving and processing mail data from clients. This can be exploited to corrupt memory by sending specially crafted data at certain time intervals.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the sendmail server daemon.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following products:
* Sendmail 8.13.5 and prior
* Sendmail 8.12.11 and prior
* Sendmail Sentrion 1.1
* Sendmail Switch 2.x, 3.0.x, and 3.1.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
* Sendmail Managed MTA 2.x, 3.0.x, and 3.1.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
* Sendmail Multi-Switch 2.x, 3.0.x, and 3.1.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
* Sendmail Message Store/SAMS 1.2.x, 2.0.x, 2.1.x, and 2.2.x (Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP-UX)
* Intelligent Quarantine 3.0 (Solaris or Linux)

Solution:
Update to version 8.13.6 or apply patch.

Patch for version 8.13.5:
ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/8.13.5.p0

Patch for version 8.12.11:
ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/8.12.11.p0

Users of the commercial products should see the patch matrix in the vendor advisory for details.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Mark Dowd, ISS X-Force.

Original Advisory:
ISS X-Force:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/216

Sendmail.org:
http://www.sendmail.org/8.13.6.html

Sendmail.com:
http://www.sendmail.com/company/advisory/

Other References:
US-CERT VU#834865:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/834865


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