[SPAM?] [plug] [RANT] Sendmail bug - c'mon people!

[ryan at is.as.geeky.as]

On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 23:59:48 +0800
Gavin Rogers <grogers at vk6hgr.echidna.id.au> wrote:

> Hiyas.
> 
> Sorry for the rant but I've just got the results from a little script I've 
> been running today at work and at home on the mail server. It records the 
> sendmail version as reported in the header.
> 
> Out of the 98 servers we were emailed from, 56 were running sendmail of 
> some sort. (or a config that showed the fact in the header).
> 
> One. ONE! Was running the 'safe' version - 8.12.8.  ONE?!?

Who says you have to run 8.12.8 to be secure, what's wrong with the patch?

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-257

I'm now running 8.12.3-5, I downgraded from 8.12.5 to save a recompile.

*sends presents to Rick Nelson*

Ryan