Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:02:44 +0100 From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@soil.nl> To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Subject: [SECURITY] New version of sendmail-wide released -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman December 7, 1999 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The version of sendmail-wide that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has a slight problem in the code to regenerate the aliases database. Sendmail allowed any user to run sendmail with the -bi option to (re)initialize the aliases database. The user could then interrupt sendmail and leave the system with a broken aliases database. This has been fixed in version 8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1 by only allowing root and trusted users to regenerate the aliases database. We recommend you upgrade your sendmail package to new version. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink - -------------------------------- This version of Debian was released only for Intel ia32, the Motorola 680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1.diff.gz MD5 checksum: 8c34a22aeac39ca896dc6d88526563f8 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1.dsc MD5 checksum: e1ee230d9060a75e0a2ca02b6897f17a http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 8927d7e4602ccbb2fd817a288dae5119 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: 92bbca2bfab5136590bc2cfa2ce5b67c Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 278719bd937146061c13653b87663640 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: db94cbe812e5e20a6642695d7d777ccd Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: facfde05b670573be7828e51e8e273ea These files will be moved into ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon. For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ . - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBOE09pqjZR/ntlUftAQFEBQL/f5o5r965MqqwzWLqbMe1l8MKmXhKwj2/ KvnX9dK0Y+KDsmHgP6Gv4EJ4AkLvEzPsSrvgAjFCIa1hGQn5nggFq6LKaWTlmolp Wtc+5wu078u3fm8crDzdVnDmyx78JgFs =sLyq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-announce-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org