DSA-1164-1 sendmail -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1164-1 sendmail -- programming error

Date Reported:

31 Aug 2006

Affected Packages:

sendmail

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 385054.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 19714.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-4434.

More information:

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.13.4-3sarge3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.13.4-3sarge3.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.13.4.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-base_8.13.4-3sarge3_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-cf_8.13.4-3sarge3_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-doc_8.13.4-3sarge3_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_arm.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_ia64.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.4-3sarge3_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.4-3sarge3_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.4-3sarge3_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.4-3sarge3_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.4-3sarge3_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.