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Subject: Re: sendmail hole
From: emwmf @ emw . ericsson . se (Martin Fredriksson)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 09:13:28 +0100
To: fc @ all . net
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

> Does anyone know what the hole is and how to test for it?
> As usual, I have uploaded the CERT advisory and it tells me
> nothing about how to test for it or what it is (other than a
> newline in the address field causing problems).
> 
> I would very much like to be able to add a test for it to
> our test set. - FC

Is it really profitable to check for a specific hole in sendmail?
Check version number may be ok, but why bother?  sendmail is the
hole, isn't it :-( ?

Don't think CERT wants to publish ways to test for the hole.  Know
I don't want them to.

/// Martin F


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