[ISN] Sendmail Releases MIME Buffer Overflow Fix

From: mea culpa (jerichoat_private)
Date: Thu Sep 03 1998 - 08:05:34 PDT

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Sendmail, Inc. Releases MIME Buffer Overflow Patch
 
    Several e-mail clients have recently been shown to have buffer
overflows that may allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on users'
machines. Sendmail, Inc. has produced a patch for sendmail 8.9.1 that will
proactively defend against such attacks. It is important to note that
sendmail itself is not vulnerable to these attacks. By truncating long
MIME headers before they arrive in end users' mailboxes, such attacks can
be deflected before they can do damage.

http://www.sendmail.org/

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