Technical Support Bulletin

From: Bill Verzal (BVerzal@KOMATSUNA.COM)
Date: Sat Sep 20 2003 - 09:11:20 EDT


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Bill Verzal
AIX Administrator, Komatsu America
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   Contents for AIX and
 1) AIX 4.3.3 : Security advisories software
 2) AIX 5.1 : Security advisories running on AIX
 3) AIX 5.1 : Latest software fixes
 4) AIX 5.2 : Security advisories pSeries support

 1) AIX 4.3.3 : Security advisories Visit pSeries
 (2003.09.20) Support for a
                                                wide array of
 sendmail buffer overflow vulnerability technical
 Sendmail is a MTA (mail transfer agent) that resources.
 routes mail
 for local or network delivery. When sendmail Subscription
 receives a options
 message it translates the format of message
 headers to Update your
 match the requirements of the destination profile
 system. The
 program determines the destination via the Unsubscribe
 syntax and
 content of the address field in a message
 header. A
 vulnerability that exploits how message
 headers are parsed
 has been found. This vulnerability may allow
 a remote
 attacker to cause a denial of service attack
 or execute
 arbitrary code with root privileges. At this
 time, there is
 no known exploit for this issue in the wild.

 More information
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 2) AIX 5.1 : Security advisories (2003.09.20)

 sendmail buffer overflow vulnerability
 Sendmail is a MTA (mail transfer agent) that
 routes mail
 for local or network delivery. When sendmail
 receives a
 message it translates the format of message
 headers to
 match the requirements of the destination
 system. The
 program determines the destination via the
 syntax and
 content of the address field in a message
 header. A
 vulnerability that exploits how message
 headers are parsed
 has been found. This vulnerability may allow
 a remote
 attacker to cause a denial of service attack
 or execute
 arbitrary code with root privileges. At this
 time, there is
 no known exploit for this issue in the wild.

 More information
 Back to Top

 3) AIX 5.1 : Latest software fixes
 (2003.09.20)
 3.1) High availability, cluster, parallel
 processing (2003.09.20)
 csm.core.1.1.1.3

 csm.client.1.1.1.3

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 4) AIX 5.2 : Security advisories (2003.09.20)

 sendmail buffer overflow vulnerability
 Sendmail is a MTA (mail transfer agent) that
 routes mail
 for local or network delivery. When sendmail
 receives a
 message it translates the format of message
 headers to
 match the requirements of the destination
 system. The
 program determines the destination via the
 syntax and
 content of the address field in a message
 header. A
 vulnerability that exploits how message
 headers are parsed
 has been found. This vulnerability may allow
 a remote
 attacker to cause a denial of service attack
 or execute
 arbitrary code with root privileges. At this
 time, there is
 no known exploit for this issue in the wild.

 More information
 Back to Top

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