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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE :sendmail
SUMMARY :smsrh bypass vulnerabilites
DATE :2002-10-13 14:45 UTC
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It is possible for an attacker to bypass the restrictions imposed by
The Sendmail Consortiums Restricted Shell (SMRSH) and execute a
binary of his choosing by inserting a special character sequence into
his .forward file.
Read the full advisory at
http://www.sendmail.org/smrsh.adv.txt
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/sendmail-8.12.6 and earlier update their systems
as follows:
emerge rsync
emerge sendmail
emerge clean
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aliz@g.o - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
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