US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-081A -- Sendmail Race Condition Vulnerability (fwd)

[Tres Seaver]

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Kenneth Porter wrote:
> Main alert page: <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/834865>
> 
> Fedora details: <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MIMG-6MPU9N>
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>> From the summary:
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>   A race condition in Sendmail may allow a remote attacker to execute
>   arbitrary code.
> 
> For those of us accepting mail from outside on pre-FC4 Fedora, are any
> updates in the pipe to address this?

How about this:

  $ sudo yum install postfix


Tres.
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