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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201206-30">
<title>sendmail: X.509 NULL spoofing vulnerability</title>
<synopsis>An error in the hostname matching in sendmail might enable remote
attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">sendmail</product>
<announced>2012-06-25</announced>
<revised count="1">2012-06-25</revised>
<bug>299120</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="mail-mta/sendmail" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">8.14.4</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">8.14.4</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>sendmail is a widely-used Mail Transport Agent (MTA).</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A vulnerability has been discovered in sendmail. Please review the CVE
identifier referenced below for details.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker might employ a specially crafted certificate to
conduct man-in-the-middle attacks on SSL connections made using sendmail.
</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-8.14.4"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-4565">CVE-2009-4565</uri>
</references>
<metadata timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:22Z" tag="requester">
underling
</metadata>
<metadata timestamp="2012-06-25T18:51:12Z" tag="submitter">craig</metadata>
</glsa>