[Securityalerts] Security: sendmail denial of service alert

[efm at tummy.com]

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tummy.com Security Announcement
tummy.com, ltd.
<securityannounce at tummy.com>
2003-08-28
Vulnerability in sendmail mail server. 
Denial of service. 
CVE(s):  CAN-2003-0688
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Greetings. 

A new vulnerability has been found in the sendmail mail server. 
This vulnerability is in the way sendmail handles DNS maps, and 
could result in an attacker causing a denial of service attack
against the mail server. 

For more information see: 

  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-265.html

KRUD subscribers can upgrade from our krud-9-security, krud-8.0-security 
krud-7.3-security or krud-7.2-security krud2date repositories:

For KRUD-9:
   krud2date -i -d krud-9-security \
      -p cgi:http://krud2date.tummy.com/krud2date.cgi

For KRUD-8.0:
   krud2date -i -d krud-8.0-security \
      -p cgi:http://krud2date.tummy.com/krud2date.cgi

For KRUD-7.3:
   krud2date -i -d krud-7.3-security \
      -p cgi:http://krud2date.tummy.com/krud2date.cgi

For KRUD-7.2: 
   krud2date -i -d krud-7.2-security \
      -p cgi:http://krud2date.tummy.com/krud2date.cgi

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments about
this announcement. You can reach us at (970) 494-0355 or by email at
security at tummy.com

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Regards,                    tummy.com, ltd 
Evelyn Mitchell             Linux Consulting since 1995
efm at tummy.com               Senior System and Network Administrators
                            http://www.tummy.com/