| Nessus Plugin ID: 22557 | Name: [DSA1015] DSA-1015-1 sendmail |
| CVE References: CVE-2006-0058 (cve.mitre.org, nvd.nist.gov) |
| SANS/FBI TOP20 Reference: |
| Group/Family: Debian Local Security Checks |
| Risk: High |
Description: Synopsis :
The remote host is missing the DSA-1015 security update
Description :
Mark Dowd discovered a flaw in the handling of asynchronous signals in
sendmail, a powerful, efficient, and scalable mail transport agent.
This allows a remote attacker to exploit a race condition to
execute arbitrary code as root.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.12.3-7.2.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.13.4-3sarge1.
See also :
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1015
Solution :
The Debian project recommends that you upgrade your sendmail package immediately.
/ CVSS Base Score : 7.6
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
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| Created: 2009-01-02 15:53:19 | Last Changed: 2009-07-31 01:54:55 |