Here is another question, would installing the official Redhat packages on a CentOS machine ? I'm thinking it shouldn't be an issue. Tony Wicks wrote: > HI guys, If the rpm for this could be produced as soon as humanly > possible it would be appreciates ! thanks guys - > > Synopsis > Critical: sendmail security update > > Issued: 3/22/06 > Updated: 3/22/06 > Topic > Updated sendmail packages to fix a security issue are now available for Red > Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. > > This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red > Hat Security Response Team. > Description > Sendmail is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA) used to send mail between > machines. > > A flaw in the handling of asynchronous signals was discovered in Sendmail. > A remote attacker may be able to exploit a race condition to execute > arbitrary code as root. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project > assigned the name CVE-2006-0058 to this issue. > > By default on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, Sendmail is configured to > only accept connections from the local host. Therefore, only users who have > configured Sendmail to listen to remote hosts would be able to be remotely > exploited by this vulnerability. > > Users of Sendmail are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, which > contain a backported patch from the Sendmail team to correct this issue. > Solution > Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata > relevant to your system have been applied. > > This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, > launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: > > up2date > > This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate > RPMs being upgraded on your system. > Affected Channels > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3 for AMD64/Intel EM64T) > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3 for Itanium) > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3 for x86) > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4 for 32-bit x86) > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4 for 64-bit Intel Itanium) > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4 for AMD64/Intel EM64T) > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror