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sendmail -- race condition vulnerability

Description:

Problem Description

A race condition has been reported to exist in the handling by sendmail of asynchronous signals.

Impact

A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running sendmail, typically root.

Workaround

There is no known workaround other than disabling sendmail.

References:

Affects:

portaudit: sendmail -- race condition vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>