Debian Security Advisory
DSA-554-1 sendmail -- pre-set password
- Date Reported:
- 27 Sep 2004
- Affected Packages:
- sendmail
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0833.
- More information:
-
Hugo Espuny discovered a problem in sendmail, a commonly used program to deliver electronic mail. When installing "sasl-bin" to use sasl in connection with sendmail, the sendmail configuration script use fixed user/pass information to initialise the sasl database. Any spammer with Debian systems knowledge could utilise such a sendmail installation to relay spam.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 8.12.3-7.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 8.13.1-13.
We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-doc_8.12.3-7.1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.