CentOS 3 / 4 : sendmail (CESA-2006:0264)

high Nessus Plugin ID 21893

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated sendmail packages to fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Sendmail is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA) used to send mail between machines.

A flaw in the handling of asynchronous signals was discovered in Sendmail. A remote attacker may be able to exploit a race condition to execute arbitrary code as root. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2006-0058 to this issue.

By default on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, Sendmail is configured to only accept connections from the local host. Therefore, only users who have configured Sendmail to listen to remote hosts would be able to be remotely exploited by this vulnerability.

Users of Sendmail are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, which contain a backported patch from the Sendmail team to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected sendmail packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 21893

File Name: centos_RHSA-2006-0264.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 7/3/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sendmail-cf, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sendmail, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sendmail-doc, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sendmail-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0058

RHSA: 2006:0264

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