Re: sendmail port 25 and 587

From: Ashok Aiyar (aiyar@ebv.mimnet.northwestern.edu)
Date: 06/17/02 

From: Ashok Aiyar <aiyar@ebv.mimnet.northwestern.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 2002 14:20:05 GMT

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:16:04 GMT,
    Anonymous (nobody@nowhere.co.uk) wrote:
>
> Can people tell me if these ports(as shown by nmap) when
> sendmail is running in deamon mode safe??.

They are as safe as your sendmail installation in. Are you running
sendmail SUID root? Are you version a (recent) version that doesn't
have any buffer overflows?

Ashok 

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Ashok Aiyar
RLU #51601

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