Also: Courtesy of Sun Microsystems. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sun Security Coordination Team <secureat_private> To: CWSat_private Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 13:56:23 -0700 Subject: Sun Security Bulletin #00187 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ________________________________________________________________________________ Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin Bulletin Number: #00187 Date: June 7, 1999 Cross-Ref: Title: Version 8.8.8 Sendmail for SunOS(tm) 5.6 and 5.5.1 ________________________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this Security Bulletin is provided "AS IS." Sun makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this Security Bulletin. 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If any of the above provisions are held to be in violation of applicable law, void, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, then such provisions are waived to the extent necessary for this disclaimer to be otherwise enforceable in such jurisdiction. ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Bulletins Topics Sun announces the release of patches for Solaris(tm) 2.6 and 2.5.1 (SunOS 5.6 and 5.5.1) containing Sun's implementation of version 8.8.8 sendmail. Sun recommends that customers running SunOS 5.6 and 5.5.1 install the patches listed in section 4 to take advantage of the security enhancements found in version 8.8.8 sendmail. 2. Understanding What is Available sendmail is a mail transfer agent, Copyright (C) Eric Allman and the University of California, which is freely available. Their base version is commonly known as "Berkeley sendmail", as opposed to various vendors' versions of sendmail (including Sun's). SunOS 5.6 and 5.5.1 originally included version 8.6.9 of Berkeley sendmail, with Sun enhancements added. Various security related improvements were made in version 8.8.8 of Berkeley sendmail, including improvements relating to email spam and bombs, and email relaying. Sun's implementation of version 8.8.8 sendmail includes enhancements to address subsequently identified security vulnerabilities and support for V1/Sun configuration files, used in Sun's version of 8.6.9 sendmail. 3. Support for Sun's sendmail With this release of version 8.8.8 sendmail, Sun will stop support for version 8.6.9 sendmail for SunOS 5.6 and 5.5.1. 4. List of Patches Sun's implementation of version 8.8.8 sendmail is provided for SunOS 5.6 and 5.5.1 via these patches: OS Version Patch ID __________ _________ SunOS 5.6 105395-05 SunOS 5.6_x86 105396-05 SunOS 5.5.1 103594-18 SunOS 5.5.1_x86 103595-18 _______________________________________________________________________________ APPENDICES A. 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