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Re: SendGate: Sendmail Multiple Vulnerabilities (Race Condition DoS, Memory Jumps, Integer Overflow)


From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:00:41 +0200


Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:39:11 +0200, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:


Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

Well, it *is* mostly a theoretical overflow - for it to work, a site would have to:

Exploit is out there. How long did that take?


Is the exploit actually effective in the wild?  The conditions Valdis
spoke of are improbable -- are there actually vulnerable sites?  Or is
the attack much easier than he had indicated?


There are two exploit code samples I saw. There are two remote exploits for one of them so far that are public that I know of.

I haven't seen any exploited sites yet.


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