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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="200603-21">
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<title>Sendmail: Race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals</title>
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<synopsis>
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Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition which could lead to the
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execution of arbitrary code with sendmail privileges.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">sendmail</product>
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<announced>March 22, 2006</announced>
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<revised>March 22, 2006: 01</revised>
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<bug>125623</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="mail-mta/sendmail" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">8.13.6</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">8.13.6</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>
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Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent (MTA).
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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ISS discovered that Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition in
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the handling of asynchronous signals.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="high">
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<p>
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An attacker could exploit this via certain crafted timing
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conditions.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>
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There is no known workaround at this time.
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</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>
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All Sendmail users should upgrade to the latest version:
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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.6"</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0058">CVE-2006-0058</uri>
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<uri link="http://www.sendmail.com/company/advisory/index.shtml">Sendmail Inc. advisory</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:21:08 +0000">
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jaervosz
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:48:59 +0000">
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jaervosz
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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