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<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>March 22, 2006</announced>
<revised>March 22, 2006: 01</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 &quot;&gt;=mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.6&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0058">CVE-2006-0058</uri>
<uri link="http://www.sendmail.com/company/advisory/index.shtml">Sendmail Inc. advisory</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:21:08 +0000">
jaervosz
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:48:59 +0000">
jaervosz
</metadata>
</glsa>