Sendmail 8.13.8...has anyone made their own RPMS for FC5?

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:

>> True on the latter. But that has and will always be the case. That is not
>> the fault of the software, however. In this case, an extra problem is
>> causing a DOS on top of what you describe above. And if your network is a
>> victim of an attack based on that, it can be just as costly as a security
>> flaw allowing a breach of information.
>
> How is it more of a DOS one way than the other?  If I understand
> the flaw, you can only crash the sendmail child connected to
> yourself which shouldn't have as much impact on anything else
> as staying connected would.  It's not particularly desirable
> but I don't see how killing a child process that will be
> restarted is a big problem.

Is the child always going to restart? If so, then mea culpa. But still, 
I'd rather have it fixed either way.

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