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Debian Security Advisory DSA 554-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Martin Schulze
September 27th, 2004                     Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : sendmail
Vulnerability  : pre-set password
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: yes
CVE ID         : CAN-2004-0833

Hugo Espuny discovered a problem in sendmail, a commonly used program
to deliver electronic mail.  When installing "sasl-bin" to use sasl in
connection with sendmail, the sendmail configuration script use fixed
user/pass information to initialise the sasl database.  Any spammer
with Debian systems knowledge could utilise such a sendmail
installation to relay spam.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.12.3-7.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.13.1-13.

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 below:

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 3.0 alias woody
--------------------------------

  Source archives:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:      751 f87d51444a4f2e04a59fafeb7f097bbc
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   258790 c2f8dcc37edf99eada5fb65b26bb9e72
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1840401 b198b346b10b3b5afc8cb4e12c07ff4d

  Architecture independent components:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   747880 2ae5775f103472f8f7941e0662786930

  Alpha architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   267968 69dab41dfc47d348ec7ee5603971c68b
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1109604 9f64220f46ac154f7426450478f101dc

  ARM architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   247700 6bb4396b026113ec4e12026377a18d17
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   979550 718d6fb7066f753dcba7c71aa7d76ed0

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   237456 111a0ee4b50eafdfdf89845dc633aa1b
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   918104 ad5cc37cb435ed63022ab3a16ae01f6e

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   282146 360db5037b71cb5eab9015ae8292aca3
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1332930 f25bedb4ac5beb5372a704a99dc4d2ac

  HP Precision architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   261806 5aebadbfa1f4c5b63a97034a5bdd3b5a
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1081296 1fc96f0e94f384c4f8007358243a4e5e

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   231282 8d498605748163c67d9ff0f467e01966
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   866108 b41e130ed77f5224f80178375f25664c

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   255334 699b5f21580f659cd22311150bf0ba5c
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1022342 2b627d3fdc4c7c9841c6d150b33c1c2a

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   255012 d2a7cf6d78b43bf701b836d0224c3b09
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1022760 9376daf26c909df8cfd6017861c9a423

  PowerPC architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   257484 698ab817f07d5f0d2c4acce2953f1a47
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   978892 b6ee12aaa79ac88ba86c082e76292222

  IBM S/390 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   242818 62ee8100f00289f61c741152055b6547
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   966586 7c1eadeda33234516b07f8241cb88b9d

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   245470 17ff10779b02a0d5d278e2ba4221b6c6
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   982828 f791b2399d1b7dba4ec770ab08a68e0b


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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