Debian Security Advisory

DSA-554-1 sendmail -- pre-set password

Date Reported:
27 Sep 2004
Affected Packages:
sendmail
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0833.
More information:

Hugo Espuny discovered a problem in sendmail, a commonly used program to deliver electronic mail. When installing "sasl-bin" to use sasl in connection with sendmail, the sendmail configuration script use fixed user/pass information to initialise the sasl database. Any spammer with Debian systems knowledge could utilise such a sendmail installation to relay spam.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 8.12.3-7.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 8.13.1-13.

We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-doc_8.12.3-7.1_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-7.1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-7.1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.