Package name sendmail Date August 30th, 2006 Advisory ID MDKSA-2006:156 Affected versions CS3.0, MNF2.0, 2006.0

Problem Description

Moritz Jodeit discovered a vulnerability in sendmail when processing
very long header lines that could be exploited to cause a Denial of
Service by crashing sendmail.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Updated Packages

Corporate Server 3.0

 421f3b45e01bbb9ea6dd907a60eafd21  corporate/3.0/RPMS/sendmail-8.12.11-1.3.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 363fe7e5f501e3c638f893e3bb805889  corporate/3.0/RPMS/sendmail-cf-8.12.11-1.3.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 efdfae3157d77708d2fdec4fdcbd2362  corporate/3.0/RPMS/sendmail-devel-8.12.11-1.3.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 05d8e255ebe10729361bde038ab999ec  corporate/3.0/RPMS/sendmail-doc-8.12.11-1.3.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 bc7577c81a324fb8c2cb4392f9039372  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/sendmail-8.12.11-1.3.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 3.0/X86_64

 65d846ef86d0df8d32316c79a2b9a326  x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/sendmail-8.12.11-1.3.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 457e8e7d69b48bbeff20a54c3f01ef4d  x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/sendmail-cf-8.12.11-1.3.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 34e7e51ef099d09b4781d79b3e05be42  x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/sendmail-devel-8.12.11-1.3.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 31d545ea1139af2b397a5e65d1b6c961  x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/sendmail-doc-8.12.11-1.3.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 bc7577c81a324fb8c2cb4392f9039372  x86_64/corporate/3.0/SRPMS/sendmail-8.12.11-1.3.C30mdk.src.rpm

Multi Network Firewall 2.0

 d4f9409b6f07b43d8d28340553a42aac  mnf/2.0/RPMS/sendmail-8.12.11-1.3.M20mdk.i586.rpm
 f50c4ea50ac1f24431c7a693cc665e72  mnf/2.0/RPMS/sendmail-cf-8.12.11-1.3.M20mdk.i586.rpm
 7b141d0baf6d3c42bc88bf9aec6c3c93  mnf/2.0/SRPMS/sendmail-8.12.11-1.3.M20mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006

 a870f27eea807314c3688258eed755a5  2006.0/RPMS/sendmail-8.13.4-6.3.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 35666ba77272168154638784d3126e8a  2006.0/RPMS/sendmail-cf-8.13.4-6.3.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 e68900de30eb26c1ad6023b6f25feda4  2006.0/RPMS/sendmail-devel-8.13.4-6.3.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 adbdad6844cc56e002e300703dfa800f  2006.0/RPMS/sendmail-doc-8.13.4-6.3.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 8db59bc684bf7ee7b50f8d9025aa2f99  2006.0/SRPMS/sendmail-8.13.4-6.3.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006/X86_64

 1c23ae6dc8b9aad58efa1f45082bd594  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/sendmail-8.13.4-6.3.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 4a4d76c56fb75c24994b0e7759033462  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/sendmail-cf-8.13.4-6.3.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 15316c4ecd26d10f840a0e2e9cff0164  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/sendmail-devel-8.13.4-6.3.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 31db86ce194192d535a6adbb60f86691  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/sendmail-doc-8.13.4-6.3.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 8db59bc684bf7ee7b50f8d9025aa2f99  x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/sendmail-8.13.4-6.3.20060mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4434

Upgrade

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Verification

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		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

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