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y Patch 003: smrsh (2 of 3)

Contributed by jose on from the sendmail dept.

In the second of three patches released today, a problem in the sendmail installation has been remedied. Patch 003 resolves an issue in smrsh , the restricted shell used by sendmail to interact with the system. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code on the mail server. Patch 003 adds additional checks to safeguard against this vulnerability.

Update Josh reminded us that this patch has been applied to 3.1-stable and 3.0-stable . Thank you.

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