[ale] Fwd: [SECURITY] [DSA 554-1] New sendmail packages fix potential open relay

[Jim Popovitch]

Does anyone know how extensive of a problem this is?  Specifically, is
it Debian specific, or has Debian just beat everyone to the punch on
announcing it?

Thx,

-Jim P.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 554-1                     security at debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
September 27th, 2004                    http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : sendmail
Vulnerability  : pre-set password
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: yes
CVE ID         : CAN-2004-0833

Hugo Espuny discovered a problem in sendmail, a commonly used program
to deliver electronic mail.  When installing "sasl-bin" to use sasl in
connection with sendmail, the sendmail configuration script use fixed
user/pass information to initialise the sasl database.  Any spammer
with Debian systems knowledge could utilise such a sendmail
installation to relay spam.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.12.3-7.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.13.1-13.

We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail package.