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Date:      Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:21:23 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sendmail 8.8.4 questions...
Message-ID:  <199612041821.LAA10958@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961120105316.0074d25c@infowest.com>
References:  <3.0.32.19961120105316.0074d25c@infowest.com>

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> Looking at www.sendmail.org I see that sendmail 8.8.4 has been
> released.

Peter incorporated it into -current the day it was released, and Poul
merged almost all of it into 2.2 about 4 hours later.  (He missed a
non-important change in makemap).


> >From that page I read, "Sendmail 8.8.4 fixes the security problem described
> in CERT Advisory CA-96.24."  Now wasn't that fixed in 8.8.3?  If so, is
> 8.8.4 just a minor bug release with no real security fixes over 8.8.3?
> Does anyone even know?

It fixes a security bug with .forward and alias::include file handling.


Nate



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