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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:14:49 -0600
From:      "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net>
To:        "'Matthew Seaman'" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, "'Giorgos Keramidas'" <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Sendmail patch questions...
Message-ID:  <005f01c2e247$aa08e420$0301a8c0@mike>
In-Reply-To: <20030304082026.GB6551@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>

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On Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:20 AM Matthew Seaman =
<mailto:m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:22:49AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
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>> PS: You can always upgrade to RELENG_4.  Gregory Neil Shapiro, the
>> maintainer of Sendmail on FreeBSD, has already merged the latest
>> Sendmail version (8.12.8) to the RELENG_4 branch.
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> Actually, according to what I can see in a quick trawl through cvsweb,
> he's MFC'd sendmail patches on all RELENG_x and RELENG_x_y branches
> back to and including RELENG_3:
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>   =20
> =
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/sendmail/src/?sortby=3D=
date&only_with_tag=3DRELENG_3
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> However, it seems that his modifications don't constitute a complete
> upgrade to sendmail-8.12.8 except on RELENG_4 and HEAD.  Hence the
> confusion over the binary updates given in the original security
> alert.  Your sendmail binary will be immune to this attack if you've
> built it out of a recently cvsup'd source tree or installed one of the
> binary patches so that:
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>     -- you're running sendmail-8.12.8 or better
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>     or
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>     -- the string 'Dropped invalid comments from header address'
>        appears in the sendmail binary.
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> Thanks to Claus Assmann for pointing out the second test.
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> 	Cheers,
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> 	Matthew

Thanks Matt.  Few questions though:

1.  What is `BP'?
2.  I appllied the patch and now I'm building world with my exsisting =
4.4 sources.  Is this not `safe' as cvsuping and then buidling world?  =
I'm not sure I understand the implications of not cvsuping, especially =
since the patch has been applied to 8.11.6 in the 4.4 branch.

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