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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:How long by RLiegh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How old is sendmail? And yet not a month goes by without a bug being found
    ...and fixed. That's the upside of OSS. How old is M$ Windows? and yet not a month goes by without a bug being found