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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDKSA-2003:086)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 14068

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in all 8.12.x versions of sendmail up to and including 8.12.8. Due to wrong initialization of RESOURCE_RECORD_T structures, if sendmail receives a bad DNS reply it will call free() on random addresses which usually causes sendmail to crash.

These updated packages are patched to fix the problem.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.sendmail.org/dnsmap1.html

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54367

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 14068

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2003-086.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 7/31/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-cf, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-doc, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.2, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0688

MDKSA: 2003:086