Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:15:43 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <<a
href=”mailto:wichert@soil.nl”>wichert@soil.nl>
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/
Wichert Akkerman
December 7, 1999
The version of sendmail that was distributed with Debian
GNU/Linux 2.1 has a slight problem in the code to regenerate the
aliases database. Sendmail allowed any user to run sendmail with
the -bi option to (re)initialize the aliases database. The user
could then interrupt sendmail and leave the system with a broken
aliases database.
This has been fixed in version 8.9.3-3slink1 by only allowing
root and trusted users to regenerate the aliases database.
We recommend you upgrade your sendmail package to new
version.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
This version of Debian was released only for Intel ia32, the
Motorola 680×0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/sendmail_8.9.3-3slink1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 728f0a837a7938cce72203abb23e7c3f
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/sendmail_8.9.3-3slink1.dsc
MD5 checksum: bca6225d21bfb8e1152f725100966629
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/sendmail_8.9.3.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: efedacfbce84a71d1cfb0e617b84596e
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/sendmail_8.9.3-3slink1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 91ba4f7c50942a0c712e9d2fe14e4516
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/sendmail_8.9.3-3slink1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: e7843eebfe8df6174d48f2ae6ff87fd0
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/sendmail_8.9.3-3slink1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: aca29516909180ed5ef4c1dbcaf60140
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/sendmail_8.9.3-3slink1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 30e71411552430924b649db64ec2048b
These files will be moved into
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/
soon.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the
appropriate directory
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/
.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable updates
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org