[MV] Mac OS X security hole

[Jonathan Greene]

Security Update is available via Software Update as of last night...


On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 04:47 PM, T. Patrick Henebry wrote:

> Folks,
>
> There is a security hole in sendmail that could turn out to be quite 
> nasty for some. It affects a number of Unix and Linux variants.  This 
> includes Apple's Mac OS X.
>
> Apple has made a patch available through Software Update (the update 
> from Apple also addresses an SSH issue) See:
>
> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-07.html
>
> for details and a vendor list. If your vendor isn't listed I would 
> still contact them to see if they have a fix.
>
> Also sendmail.org has a new version of sendmail available that fixes 
> the hole, as well as patches for older versions at:
>
> http://sendmail.org
>
> Sendmail is almost universal among Unix and Linux distributions I 
> strongly suggest everyone take steps to patch this security hole.
> -- 
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> T. Patrick Henebry
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