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Re: SendGate: Sendmail Multiple Vulnerabilities (Race Condition DoS, Memory Jumps, Integer Overflow)


From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:57:31 -0500


On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:39:11 +0200, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:


Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
Well, it *is* mostly a theoretical overflow - for it to work, a site would have to:

Exploit is out there. How long did that take?

Is the exploit actually effective in the wild?  The conditions Valdis
spoke of are improbable -- are there actually vulnerable sites?  Or is
the attack much easier than he had indicated?

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


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