Serious Vulnerability In Sendmail (updated)

Written By
Larry Seltzer
Larry Seltzer
Published: Mar 3, 2003
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
1 minute read
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A significant vulnerability has been found in the popular Sendmail SMTP server that could allow an attacker to gain root access to the server. At the same time the vulnerability was announced patches and a new Sendmail version 8.12.8 were provided by many vendors. Vendors are urging administrators to apply them with all due speed.

More details may be found in eWeek coverage. We include below some links to specific alerts, new versions and patches for this problem.

Sendmail Inc.s Sendmail 8.12.8 page

Redhats explanation and links to fixes

Apple Mac OS X 10.2.4

Gentoo Linux

Debian Linux

NetBSD (.asc file)

Mandrake Linux

Suse Linux

FreeBSD (.asc file)

Temporary Fix for AIX 4.3.3, 5.1.0, and 5.2.0 systems

Larry Seltzer

Larry Seltzer has been writing software for and English about computers ever since—,much to his own amazement— He was one of the authors of NPL and NPL-R, fourth-generation languages for microcomputers by the now-defunct DeskTop Software Corporation. (Larry is sad to find absolutely no hits on any of these +products on Google.) His work at Desktop Software included programming the UCSD p-System, a virtual machine-based operating system with portable binaries that pre-dated Java by more than 10 years.For several years, he wrote corporate software for Mathematica Policy Research (they're still in business!) and Chase Econometrics (not so lucky) before being forcibly thrown into the consulting market. He bummed around the Philadelphia consulting and contract-programming scenes for a year or two before taking a job at NSTL (National Software Testing Labs) developing product tests and managing contract testing for the computer industry, governments and publication.In 1991 Larry moved to Massachusetts to become Technical Director of PC Week Labs (now eWeek Labs). He moved within Ziff Davis to New York in 1994 to run testing at Windows Sources. In 1995, he became Technical Director for Internet product testing at PC Magazine and stayed there till 1998.Since then, he has been writing for numerous other publications, including Fortune Small Business, Windows 2000 Magazine (now Windows and .NET Magazine), ZDNet and Sam Whitmore's Media Survey.

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