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Sendmail remotely exploitable vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA8194
Release Date: 2003-03-03
Last Update: 2003-03-06
Popularity: 14,309 views

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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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

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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