Attack signature of new sendmail vulnerability

[Jerry Feldman]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:29:09 -0500
"Bill Horne" <bill at horne.net> wrote:

> From: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-07.html
> 
> "A successful attack against an unpatched sendmail system will not
> leave any messages in the system log. However, on a patched system, an
> attempt to exploit this vulnerability will leave the following log
> message:
> 
>   'Dropped invalid comments from header address'"
> 
> The advisory doesn't say which log this message would be found in.
Thanks. I just checked my online update and SuSE has patch up to version
8.12.6-91, which is a patch that fixes this. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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