SUMMARY : security hole in sendmail 8.8.4?

From: Swee-Chuan Khoo (sckhoo@tm.net.my)
Date: Tue Feb 11 1997 - 22:10:59 CST


hi,

        Apparently there is a huge security hole in 8.8.4.

        So, anyone listening , please upgrade your sendmail to
8.8.5 soon.

ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.8.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/src/sendmail/sendmail.8.8.5.tar.gz

        See CERT Advisory CA-97.05 at:

ftp://info.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-97.05.sendmail

        Thanx to

        Claus Assmann <ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de>
        "Tony C. Wu" <tonywu@cyberhouse.com.tw>
        Michael Fuhr <mfuhr@blackhole.dimensional.com>
        Nick Drage <nickd@smartways.com>
        Blaz Zupan <blaz.zupan@medinet.si>

rgds,
sc khoo

        

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