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From: NetBSD Security Officer (security-officer_at_netbsd.org)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 00:29:18 CDT

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                     NetBSD Security Advisory 2002-023
                     =================================

    Topic: sendmail smrsh bypass vulnerability

    Version: NetBSD-current: source prior to October 4, 2002
                    NetBSD 1.6: affected
                    NetBSD-1.5.3: affected
                    NetBSD-1.5.2: affected
                    NetBSD-1.5.1: affected
                    NetBSD-1.5: affected
                    pkgsrc: prior to/including sendmail-8.12.6

    Severity: bypassing local access control

    Fixed: NetBSD-current: October 4, 2002
                    NetBSD-1.6 branch: October 4, 2002
                                            (1.6.1 will include the fix)
                    NetBSD-1.5 branch: October 4, 2002
                    pkgsrc: sendmail-8.12.6nb1 or later

    Abstract
    ========

    If smrsh (sendmail restricted shell) is in use with sendmail,
    local user can bypass access restrictions imposed by smrsh.

    Technical Details
    =================

    http://www.sendmail.org/smrsh.adv.txt

    Solutions and Workarounds
    =========================

    If your system uses smrsh, your system is vulnerable.
    If you see lines matching "smrsh" in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, you are using
    smrsh.

            % grep smrsh /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

    Even if you are not using smrsh, we encourage you to upgrade smrsh binary.

    The following instructions describe how to upgrade your smrsh
    binaries by updating your source tree and rebuilding and
    installing a new version of smrsh.

    * NetBSD-current:

            Systems running NetBSD-current dated from before 2002-10-04
            should be upgraded to NetBSD-current dated 2002-10-04 or later.

            The following directories need to be updated from the
            netbsd-current CVS branch (aka HEAD):
                    gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh

            To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install smrsh:
                    # cd src
                    # cvs update -d -P gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh

                    # cd gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/smrsh
                    # make cleandir dependall
                    # make install

    * NetBSD 1.6:

            Systems running NetBSD 1.6 dated from before 2002-10-04
            should be upgraded to NetBSD 1.6 dated 2002-10-04 or later.

            The following directories need to be updated from the
            netbsd-1-6 CVS branch:
                    gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh

            To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install smrsh:
                    # cd src
                    # cvs update -d -P gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh

                    # cd gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/smrsh
                    # make cleandir dependall
                    # make install

    * NetBSD 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3:

            Systems running NetBSD 1.5 dated from before 2002-10-04
            should be upgraded to NetBSD 1.5 dated 2002-10-04 or later.

            The following directories need to be updated from the
            netbsd-1-5 CVS branch:
                    gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh

            To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install smrsh:
                    # cd src
                    # cvs update -d -P gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh

                    # cd gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/smrsh
                    # make cleandir dependall
                    # make install

    Thanks To
    =========

    Jeremy C. Reed for bringing the issue into attention via PR#18516.

    Revision History
    ================

            2002-10-08 Initial release

    More Information
    ================

    Advisories may be updated as new information comes to hand. The most
    recent version of this advisory (PGP signed) can be found at
      ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-023.txt.asc

    Information about NetBSD and NetBSD security can be found at
    http://www.NetBSD.ORG/ and http://www.NetBSD.ORG/Security/.

    Copyright 2002, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

    $NetBSD: NetBSD-SA2002-023.txt,v 1.4 2002/10/08 03:43:36 itojun Exp $

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