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Buffer Overflow in Sendmail

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the put-on-your-hardhat-and-rebuild dept.

ChiefArcher writes "On the footsteps of openssh, Sendmail 8.12.10 has just been released due to a buffer overflow in address parsing. Sendmail states this is potentially remotely exploitable. No updates on the Sendmail site yet, but the FTP site has the release notes."

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  1. HUH? by athen66 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    last i checked it's two words.

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  3. Re:It's amazing by jonabbey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And a new Slashdot troll meme is born.

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