[CLA-2002:532] Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - sendmail
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:51:10 -0200
From: secure@conectiva.com.br
To: conectiva-updates@papaleguas.conectiva.com.br, lwn@lwn.net,
Subject: [CLA-2002:532] Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - sendmail
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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE : sendmail
SUMMARY : Local vulnerability
DATE : 2002-10-16 15:49:00
ID : CLA-2002:532
RELEVANT
RELEASES : 6.0, 7.0, 8
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DESCRIPTION
Sendmail is a widely used Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). "smrsh" is an
application intended as a replacement for the sh shell for use with
Sendmail. It imposes some restrictions to what programs can be
executed when parsing ~/.forward and system wide mail aliases.
Zen-parse and Pedram Amini found two ways[1] to exploit smrsh in
order to make it execute any program on the system. The first one is
by inserting specially formatted commands in the .forward file
located in the user's home directory. The second one is by directly
calling smrsh with special parameters.
By exploiting this vulnerability, users who have no shell account or
are not allowed to execute some programs can use smrsh to bypass such
restrictions.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
assigned the name CAN-2002-1165 to this issue[2].
SOLUTION
All sendmail users should upgrade.
REFERENCES:
1.http://www.sendmail.org/smrsh.adv.txt
2.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1165
DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-1U60_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/sendmail-cf-8.11.6-1U60_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/sendmail-doc-8.11.6-1U60_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/SRPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-1U60_2cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-1U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/sendmail-cf-8.11.6-1U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/sendmail-doc-8.11.6-1U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-1U70_2cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-2U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/sendmail-cf-8.11.6-2U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/sendmail-doc-8.11.6-2U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-2U80_1cl.src.rpm
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to perform
upgrades of RPM packages:
- add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list if it is not there yet
(you may also use linuxconf to do this):
rpm [cncbr] ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br 6.0/conectiva updates
(replace 6.0 with the correct version number if you are not running CL6.0)
- run: apt-get update
- after that, execute: apt-get upgrade
Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples
can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en
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All packages are signed with Conectiva's GPG key. The key and instructions
on how to import it can be found at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/chave/?idioma=en
Instructions on how to check the signatures of the RPM packages can be
found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/politica/?idioma=en
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All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en
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