Secunia Security Advisory - NetBSD has acknowledged a vulnerability in sendmail, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
NetBSD Sendmail Memory Corruption Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19466
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19466/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
NetBSD 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/255/
DESCRIPTION:
NetBSD has acknowledged a vulnerability in sendmail, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
For more information:
SA19342
NOTE: Sendmail is by default only bound to localhost.
SOLUTION:
Fixes are not available for the 1.6 branch. Upgrade to a later
version for which fixes are available (see vendor advisory for
additional information).
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-010.txt.asc
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA19342:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19342/
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