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Re: Sendmail testing tool.

From: David Huecking (d.hueckinggmx.net)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 14:32:47 CST


Seen on
http://www.sendmail.org/patchcr.html

To check whether the new sendmail binary contains the patch, run this command
(in the directory where the binary is located):

strings sendmail | grep 'Dropped invalid comments from header address'

 The command must print the string
Dropped invalid comments from header address

On Dienstag, 4. März 2003 00:34, Jon Larabee wrote:
> Sorry for my ignorance as I have just patched sendmail for the currently
> new vunerability in 8.12.7 and below. Is there a test tool yet so that I
> could verify that the patch took and that the exploit has been taken care
> of?

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