New Vulnerability in Sendmail Revealed, Patch Available

New Vulnerability in Sendmail Revealed, Patch Available

Written By
Larry Seltzer
Larry Seltzer
Mar 29, 2003
1 minute read
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The Sendmail Consortium has released version 8.12.9 of the Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (SMTP server) after a serious vulnerability having to do with the parsing of addresses was prematurely revealed by a third party.

As explained on the Sendmail site, the address parsing problem was a buffer overflow with potentially serious consequences. The advisory does not specifically recommend that administrators install the patches, but the use of the term critical security flaw is suggestive.

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