RHEL 2.1 : sendmail (RHSA-2003:284)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 12422

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated Sendmail packages that fix a potentially-exploitable vulnerability are now available.

Sendmail is a widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA) and is included in all Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions.

There is a bug in the prescan() function of Sendmail versions prior to and including 8.12.9. The sucessful exploitation of this bug can lead to heap and stack structure overflows. Although no exploit currently exists, this issue is locally exploitable and may also be remotely exploitable. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0694 to this issue.

All users are advised to update to these erratum packages containing a backported patch which corrects these vulnerabilities.

Red Hat would like to thank Michal Zalewski for finding and reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 12422

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2003-284.nasl

Version: 1.29

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sendmail, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sendmail-cf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sendmail-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sendmail-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0694

RHSA: 2003:284

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