Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:02:44 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <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-wide 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+3.2W-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-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 8c34a22aeac39ca896dc6d88526563f8
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1.dsc
MD5 checksum: e1ee230d9060a75e0a2ca02b6897f17a
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 8927d7e4602ccbb2fd817a288dae5119
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 92bbca2bfab5136590bc2cfa2ce5b67c
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 278719bd937146061c13653b87663640
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: db94cbe812e5e20a6642695d7d777ccd
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-3slink1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: facfde05b670573be7828e51e8e273ea
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