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Debian DSA-257-1 : sendmail - remote exploit

critical Nessus Plugin ID 15094

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force found a bug in the header parsing routines of sendmail: it could overflow a buffer overflow when encountering addresses with very long comments. Since sendmail also parses headers when forwarding emails this vulnerability can hit mail-servers which do not deliver the email as well.

Solution

This has been fixed in upstream release 8.12.8, version 8.12.3-5 of the package for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0/woody and version 8.9.3-25 of the package for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/potato.

DSA-257-2: Updated sendmail-wide packages are available in package version 8.9.3+3.2W-24 for Debian 2.2 (potato) and version 8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.2 for Debian 3.0 (woody).

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-257

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 15094

File Name: debian_DSA-257.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sendmail, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sendmail-wide

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1337

CERT: 398025

DSA: 257