From: Mordechai T. Abzug (mortyfrakir.org)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 19:39:14 CST

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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:08:09AM -0800, Claus Assmann wrote:

> 8.12.8/8.12.8 2003/02/11
> SECURITY: Fix a remote buffer overflow in header parsing by
> dropping sender and recipient header comments if the
> comments are too long. Problem noted by Mark Dowd
> of ISS X-Force.
> Fix a potential non-exploitable buffer overflow in parsing the
> .cf queue settings and potential buffer underflow in
> parsing ident responses. Problem noted by Yichen Xie of
> Stanford University Compilation Group.

Question: are the header and ident issues *only* remote overflow
problems, or is this also a local vulnerability? Ie. if one has a
system that doesn't run sendmail in daemon mode (-bd), but does make
sendmail available as an SUID root binary for submission to the local
smarthost and does run sendmail is queue-process mode (ie. -q15m), is
the system still vulnerable? Given that the problem is in the header
parsing, I would expect this to be both a remote and a local problem,
but I'd like to make sure before doing lots of upgrades.

Thanks.

- Morty

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