From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 25 05:55:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA13300 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 05:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA13295 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 05:55:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id HAA14956; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 07:55:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199704251255.HAA14956@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.5 To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 07:55:44 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Snob Art Genre at "Apr 24, 97 05:46:04 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Snob Art Genre said: > I was told today that this version had a security hole -- does anyone know > whether that's true or false? > I'm on the CERT mailing list. I haven't seen anything about it. Also checking www.cert.org doesn't find anything about 8.8.5. That said, I'd say, yes, there probably is a security hole, it's sendmail after all. :-) -- Change your thoughts and you change your world. --Norman Vincent Peale