[ale] Checking for sendmail patch

Transam transam at verysecurelinux.com
Mon Mar 17 01:20:10 EST 2003


On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:10:51PM -0500, John Trostel wrote:
> How will it act differently?

Look for sendmail.cf in /etc/mail instead of /etc and look for smrsh programs
(programs invoked out of the aliases file) in a different place.  No big
deal.  Just will completely break mail.

Bob

> > Message: 11
> > Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:52:05 -0500
> > From: Bob Toxen <bob at verysecurelinux.com>
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] Checking for sendmail patch
> > Reply-To: ale at ale.org

> > I assume that everyone has heard about the remote root vulnerability in
> > sendmail that came to light this week.

> > Be aware that the new patched version of sendmail may behave differently
> > than the existing sendmail on some versions of some platforms, notably
> Red Hat.
> -- 
> John M. Trostel
> jtrostel at mindspring.com
> Atlanta, Georgia USA

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