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Sendmail remotely exploitable vulnerability

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SA8194

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Release Date:

2003-03-03

Last Update:

2003-03-06

Popularity:

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Critical:

Extremely critical

Impact:

System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

OS:

AIX 4.x
AIX 5.x
Apple Macintosh OS X
FreeBSD 4.x
FreeBSD 5.x
HP-UX 10.x
HP-UX 11.x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
Red Hat Linux 6.2
Red Hat Linux 7.0
Red Hat Linux 7.1
Red Hat Linux 7.2
Red Hat Linux 7.3
Red Hat Linux 8.0
SGI IRIX 6.5.x
Sun Solaris 2.6
Sun Solaris 7
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9

Software:

Sendmail 8.x
Sendmail Message Store/SAMS 1.x
Sendmail Switch 2.x
Sendmail Switch 3.x

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Solution:
Upgrade to sendmail version 8.12.8
http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.8.html

IBM AIX:
APAR number for AIX 4.3.3: IY40500 (available approx. 03/12/2003)
APAR number for AIX 5.1.0: IY40501 (available approx. 04/28/2003)
APAR number for AIX 5.2.0: IY40502 (available approx. 04/28/2003)
Temporary solution:
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/sendmail_efix.tar.Z

FreeBSD:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:04.sendmail.asc

Apple Mac OS X
Updated packages are available for 10.1.5 and 10.2.4
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n120195
Sendmail is not enabled by default.

RedHat has issued updated packages for all currently supported versions (6.2 to 8.0):
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-073.html

RedHat has issued updated packages for their Advanced Server and Advanced Workstation:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-074.html

SGI has issued updates for IRIX:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20030301-01-P

SUN has issued patches for 2.6, 7, 8 and 9:
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/51181

Provided and/or discovered by:
ISS

Changelog:
2003-02-04: Added details about the vulnerability.

Original Advisory:
http://www.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21950

Other References:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-07.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/398025
http://www.sendmail.org/

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