<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200603-21"> <title>Sendmail: Race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals</title> <synopsis> Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with sendmail privileges. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">sendmail</product> <announced>2006-03-22</announced> <revised count="01">2006-03-22</revised> <bug>125623</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="mail-mta/sendmail" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">8.13.6</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">8.13.6</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent (MTA). </p> </background> <description> <p> ISS discovered that Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals. </p> </description> <impact type="high"> <p> An attacker could exploit this via certain crafted timing conditions. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Sendmail users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.6"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0058">CVE-2006-0058</uri> <uri link="https://www.sendmail.com/company/advisory/index.shtml">Sendmail Inc. advisory</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-03-21T20:21:08Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-03-22T19:48:59Z"> jaervosz </metadata> </glsa>