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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1985-1] New sendmail packages fix SSL certificate verif

    From Giuseppe Iuculano@1:229/2 to All on Sun Jan 31 15:40:01 2010
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1985-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Giuseppe Iuculano January 31, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : sendmail
    Vulnerability : insufficient input validation
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2009-4565
    Debian bug : 564581

    It was discovered that sendmail, a Mail Transport Agent, does not properly handle
    a '\0' character in a Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate.
    This allows an attacker to spoof arbitrary SSL-based SMTP servers via a crafted server
    certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, and to bypass intended
    access restrictions via a crafted client certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.

    For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 8.13.8-3+etch1

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 8.14.3-5+lenny1

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 8.14.3-9.1, and will migrate to the testing distribution (squeeze) shortly.

    We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail package.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian (oldstable)
    - ------------------

    Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.13.8-3+etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 369120 db03c2498a360f4da02be0e44facca57
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.13.8-3+etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 949 5252fa5d6c477d90f9474f999035f959
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.13.8.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1995868 bcdd005ae02fdb0ecef2d6b21ac44e5d

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-cf_8.13.8-3+etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 284068 65ef6467d6c85ef90f8e1bb9a0ce3eef
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-doc_8.13.8-3+etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 698342 466aaa8a9cf452943549a3403f869df9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.13.8-3+etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 196848 2557652c4c66c3db1f1467272b1c0dfc
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-base_8.13.8-3+etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 345118 8636e42323c07d63fd145cd5329d09b1

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.8-3+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 202704 bba5c73b5da9971f8aee68b000e9b748
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.8-3+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 262668 26794af48fbdbaf3daac51f7b3478cad
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0-dbg_8.13.8-3+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 196278 5cbc296b501b2575d47f1a6201580c28
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.8-3+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 231818 53e7d4f9ba38f266457b1d3d37c9f8eb
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.8-3+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 322192 bee24998a6e6db033f0753fe3fd26314
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.8-3+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 925162 47924bb85a2dbf791b86e1d7e6368b11

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.8-3+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 202258 b13b1a088cb21da832f9125011f051db
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.8-3+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 866764 a0006766d2db53fc31e5326730c4d243
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.8-3+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 300978 8d407fdf40114121dfc16dc8c6416d54
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0-dbg_8.13.8-3+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 196254 2e550571bf2441c2fc1271323a4619d6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.8-3+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 261332 a8394f8f93c23ec655bab75376b7bb07
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.8-3+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 229794 faefb63a062f5328b450a8de7e740132

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sensible-mda_8.13.8-3+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 201918 1798418509ce66dcd7b62e06373357fd
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0-dbg_8.13.8-3+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 196266 66a8e56ebdb6fbcb4c7db7af17d6678d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.13.8-3+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 857542 437edd61ab05ab2913cdb403dca51b51
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.13.8-3+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 288470 c28bad3e1c9ad1e7ae5dcb2e64d72393
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/rmail_8.13.8-3+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 229324 e0d3bde1c7f8fed9dba3c8d0d0ef8c56
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter0_8.13.8-3+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 256846 29b4c31fcaf597be305e480c2df8df43

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)


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