March 3, 2003 / Rafe / Comments Off on Yet another Sendmail overflow
Yet another buffer overflow in Sendmail has been found, and can be used to obtain root. Interestingly, the worm Robert Morris unleashed in 1988 took advantage of a security flaw in Sendmail. Good to know that 15 years down the road, we’re still running into problems with the same buggy piece of software. There’ll be no patching for me, I run postfix.
Yet another Sendmail overflow
Yet another buffer overflow in Sendmail has been found, and can be used to obtain root. Interestingly, the worm Robert Morris unleashed in 1988 took advantage of a security flaw in Sendmail. Good to know that 15 years down the road, we’re still running into problems with the same buggy piece of software. There’ll be no patching for me, I run postfix.
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