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authorV3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org>2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200603-21">
+ <title>Sendmail: Race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition which could lead to the
+ execution of arbitrary code with sendmail privileges.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">sendmail</product>
+ <announced>2006-03-22</announced>
+ <revised>2006-03-22: 01</revised>
+ <bug>125623</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="mail-mta/sendmail" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">8.13.6</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">8.13.6</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent (MTA).
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ ISS discovered that Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition in
+ the handling of asynchronous signals.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ An attacker could exploit this via certain crafted timing
+ conditions.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Sendmail users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.6"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0058">CVE-2006-0058</uri>
+ <uri link="https://www.sendmail.com/company/advisory/index.shtml">Sendmail Inc. advisory</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-03-21T20:21:08Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-03-22T19:48:59Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>