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Debian: Upgrade Sendmail-Wide 8.9.3 For Alias Database Issue

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Calendar Grey December 13, 1999
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Enhance sendmail-wide on Debian to address a database problem impacting overall system performance and safety.
The version of sendmail-wide that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has a slight problem in the code to regenerate the aliases database. Sendmail allowed any user to run se...

Summary


The version of sendmail-wide that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux
2.1 has a slight problem in the code to regenerate the aliases database.
Sendmail allowed any user to run sendmail with the -bi option to
(re)initialize the aliases database. The user could then interrupt
sendmail and leave the system with a broken aliases database.

This has been fixed in version 8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1 by only allowing root
and trusted users to regenerate the aliases database.

We recommend you upgrade your sendmail package to new version.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink

This version of Debian was released only for Intel ia32, the Motorola
680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

Source archives:

-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 8c34a22aeac39ca896dc6d88526563f8
-
wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1.dsc
MD5 checksum: e1ee230d9060a75e0a2ca02b6897f17a

rce/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2...

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