glsa-200603-21.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200603-21">
  <title>Sendmail: Race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals</title>
  <synopsis>
    Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition which could lead to the
    execution of arbitrary code with sendmail privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">sendmail</product>
  <announced>2006-03-22</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-03-22</revised>
  <bug>125623</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="mail-mta/sendmail" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">8.13.6</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">8.13.6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent (MTA).
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    ISS discovered that Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition in
    the handling of asynchronous signals.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    An attacker could exploit this via certain crafted timing
    conditions.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Sendmail users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.6"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0058">CVE-2006-0058</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.sendmail.com/company/advisory/index.shtml">Sendmail Inc. advisory</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-03-21T20:21:08Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-03-22T19:48:59Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>