Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:48:21 +0200
From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: GLSA: sendmail
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE ═ ═ ═ ═:sendmail
SUMMARY ═ ═ ═ ═:smsrh bypass vulnerabilites
DATE ═ ═ ═ ═ ═ :2002-10-13 14:45 UTC
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It is possible for an attacker to bypass the restrictions imposed by
The Sendmail Consortium▓s Restricted Shell (SMRSH) and execute a
binary of his choosing by inserting a special character sequence into
his .forward file.
Read the full advisory at
http://www.sendmail.org/smrsh.adv.txt
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/sendmail-8.12.6 and earlier update their systems
as follows:
emerge rsync
emerge sendmail
emerge clean
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