[CentOS] Update of CentOS 4.0 to 4.3 be serious

Wed Apr 12 18:54:52 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:29, Mike Stankovic wrote:

> The recent sendmail security
> update allows a remote root exploit !!

*If* sendmail is running as root and you can time your
exploit to hit while it is executing a setjmp() instruction
which sounds kind of theoretical to me.  But your point
about staying current with updates is absolutely correct.

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  Les Mikesell
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