Package : sendmail Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-1173 CERT advisory : VU#146718 BugTraq ID : 18433 Debian Bug : 373801 380258
Frank Sheiness discovered that a MIME conversion routine in sendmail, a powerful, efficient, and scalable mail transport agent, could be tricked by a specially crafted mail to perform an endless recursion.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 8.13.4-3sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 8.13.7-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------