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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. Re:Why? by RLiegh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of the BSD's I have tried ( OpenBSD and FreeBSD ), neither are 'outdated', development for them is not 'slow', and they a certainly not 'stale'.

    Of the BSD's you have mentioned, OpenBSD cannot run Mozilla, and has zero support for SMP. In many people's opinion, that makes it 'stale'.