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FreeBSD Users: Time To Patch Sendmail Again

Posted by timothy on from the and-not-just-only-them dept.

Barrett Lyon writes "The FreeBSD Project just submitted this security advisory out to the masses: "FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail, a second sendmail header parsing buffer overflow." It seems that the overflow is not limited to FreeBSD and that there is currently no workaround "other than not using sendmail." Yet another good reason to run Qmail!"

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  1. Exim by phaze3000 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For those out there looking to replace sendmail, I suggest Exim.
    It's extremely stable (we've been running it on our mail cluster for 326 days now with 0 seconds of downtime) and unlike sendmail it doesn't have a config file that looks like line noise.

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