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sendmail - buffer overrun

Package(s):sendmail CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0161
Created:March 31, 2003 Updated:April 30, 2003
Description: There is yet another buffer overrun in sendmail; this one was discovered by Michal Zalewski. From the CERT Advisory: "There is a vulnerability in sendmail that can be exploited to cause a denial-of-service condition and could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sendmail daemon, typically root." Sendmail 8.12.9 was released with a fix for the problem.
Alerts:
Conectiva CLA-2003:614 2003-04-04
Debian DSA-290-1 2003-04-17
Yellow Dog YDU-20030409-1 2003-04-09
Conectiva CLA-2003:614 2003-04-04
Debian DSA-278-2 2003-04-04
Debian DSA-278-1 2003-04-04
SCO Group CSSA-2003-016.0 2003-04-03
Immunix IMNX-2003-7+-002-01 2003-03-31
Mandrake MDKSA-2003:042 2003-04-01
SuSE SuSE-SA:2003:023 2003-04-01
Red Hat RHSA-2003:120-01 2003-03-31
Gentoo 200303-27 2003-03-31
Slackware sl-1049038109 2003-03-30
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2003.027 2003-03-30

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