Package : sendmail Vulnerability : programming error Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-4434 BugTraq ID : 19714 Debian Bug : 385054
A programming error has been discovered in sendmail, an alternative mail transport agent for Debian, that could allow a remote attacker to crash the sendmail process by sending a specially crafted email message.
Please note that in order to install this update you also need libsasl2 library from proposed updates as outlined in DSA 1155-2.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 8.13.3-3sarge3
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 8.13.8-1
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 - --------------------------------