Sendmail: Race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals — GLSA 200603-21

Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with sendmail privileges.

Package	mail-mta/sendmail on all architectures
Affected versions	< 8.13.6
Unaffected versions	>= 8.13.6

Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent (MTA).

ISS discovered that Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals.

An attacker could exploit this via certain crafted timing conditions.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Sendmail users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.6"

Release date
March 22, 2006

Latest revision
March 22, 2006: 01

Severity
high

Exploitable
remote

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