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Ärende: [CLA-2002:532] Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - sendmail
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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 
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PACKAGE   : sendmail
SUMMARY   : Local vulnerability
DATE      : 2002-10-16 15:49:00
ID        : CLA-2002:532
RELEVANT
RELEASES  : 6.0, 7.0, 8

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DESCRIPTION
 Sendmail is a widely used Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). "smrsh" is an
 application intended as a replacement for the sh shell for use with
 Sendmail. It imposes some restrictions to what programs can be
 executed when parsing ~/.forward and system wide mail aliases.
 
 Zen-parse and Pedram Amini found two ways[1] to exploit smrsh in
 order to make it execute any program on the system. The first one is
 by inserting specially formatted commands in the .forward file
 located in the user's home directory. The second one is by directly
 calling smrsh with special parameters.
 
 By exploiting this vulnerability, users who have no shell account or
 are not allowed to execute some programs can use smrsh to bypass such
 restrictions.
 
 The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
 assigned the name CAN-2002-1165 to this issue[2].


SOLUTION
 All sendmail users should upgrade.
 
 
 REFERENCES:
 1.http://www.sendmail.org/smrsh.adv.txt
 2.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1165


DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-1U60_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/sendmail-cf-8.11.6-1U60_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/sendmail-doc-8.11.6-1U60_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/SRPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-1U60_2cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-1U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/sendmail-cf-8.11.6-1U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/sendmail-doc-8.11.6-1U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-1U70_2cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-2U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/sendmail-cf-8.11.6-2U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/sendmail-doc-8.11.6-2U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/sendmail-8.11.6-2U80_1cl.src.rpm


ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
 Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to perform 
 upgrades of RPM packages:
 - add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list if it is not there yet
   (you may also use linuxconf to do this):

 rpm [cncbr] ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br 6.0/conectiva updates

(replace 6.0 with the correct version number if you are not running
CL6.0)

 - run:                 apt-get update
 - after that, execute: apt-get upgrade

 Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples
 can be found at
 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en


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All packages are signed with Conectiva's GPG key. The key and instructions
on how to import it can be found at 
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/chave/?idioma=en
Instructions on how to check the signatures of the RPM packages can be
found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/politica/?idioma=en
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All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en

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