Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:53:40 +0100
From: OpenPKG <openpkg@openpkg.org.>
To: [email protected]Subject: [OpenPKG-SA-2006.007] OpenPKG Security Advisory (sendmail)
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OpenPKG Security Advisory The OpenPKG Project
http://www.openpkg.org/security.html http://www.openpkg.org[email protected][email protected]
OpenPKG-SA-2006.007 22-Mar-2006
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Package: sendmail
Vulnerability: remote code execution
OpenPKG Specific: no
Affected Releases: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
OpenPKG CURRENT <= sendmail-8.13.5-20060219 >= sendmail-8.13.6-20060322
OpenPKG 2.5 <= sendmail-8.13.5-2.5.0 >= sendmail-8.13.5-2.5.1
OpenPKG 2.4 <= sendmail-8.13.4-2.4.0 >= sendmail-8.13.4-2.4.1
OpenPKG 2.3 <= sendmail-8.13.3-2.3.0 >= sendmail-8.13.3-2.3.1
Description:
According to a vendor security advisory [0] based on research by from
Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force, a vulnerability exists in the Sendmail MTA
[1]. Under some specific timing conditions, the vulnerability may
permit a specifically crafted attack to take over the "sendmail"
MTA process, allowing remote attackers to execute commands and run
arbitrary programs on the system running the MTA, affecting email
delivery, or tampering with other programs and data on this system.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id
CVE-2006-0058 [2] to the problem.
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References:
[0] http://www.sendmail.com/company/advisory/index.shtml
[1] http://www.sendmail.org/
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0058
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