Re: Sendmail

From: Chris Faulhaber (jedgar@fxp.org)
Date: 08/30/01


Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:26:35 -0400
From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To: Ronan Lucio <ronan@melim.com.br>


On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:25:18PM -0300, Ronan Lucio wrote:
> Hi Hajimu,
>
> > mike> Probably not.. But, you never know. Someone could devise some clever
> way
> > mike> for some other process to exploit the bug.
> >
> > sendmail 8.11.15 had local-exploit. If you use old version of
> > sendmail, you must upgrade to 8.11.16. Don't forget to drop setuid
> > bit of old sendmail binary or remove it.
>
> How can I do it?
>
> I typed ls -l /usr/sbin, it shows me:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 21 Aug 28 06:33 sendmail -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4928 Apr 21 06:10 mailwrapper
>
> Is it right?
>
> Thank you very much,
>

Perhaps you should review the advisory which explains the corrective
measures in detail.

http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-security-notifications.html

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