Sendmail 8.12.8

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 06.02.2006 schrieb Will Lane um 7:52:

>     I have a RH9 box happily chugging away running sendmail 8.12.8 for 
> the last 2 years.  It is setup under the legacy project yum and is up to 
> date with the legacy project's patches.  So my question is, is this 
> secure?  Even thought 8.12.8 is not the latest version of sendmail?  
> Sorry for the question, i feel so naive...

> Will

There were no major security bugs within Sendmail after that patched
version you are running. The upstream Sendmail version without the
severe bug is 8.12.9, but Red Hat applied the fix to the version it
shipped before.

Alexander


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