[CentOS] Re: Sendmail Segfaults

Wed Sep 20 17:09:08 UTC 2006
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

Alexander Dalloz spake the following on 9/20/2006 7:23 AM:
> Scott Silva schrieb:
> 
>>>> Has anybody else been seeing a lot of sendmail segfaults since
>>>> Yesterday?
>>>> I got over 2300 yesterday alone, and haven't got done counting todays.
>>>>
>>>> You are maybe target of an attack using a known vulnerability of
>>>> Sendmail < 8.13.8.
>>>>
>>>> http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-4434
>>>>
>>>> Alexander
>>>>
>>> Is there a good repo with a newer sendmail than in CentOS 4.4?
>>>
> Hi Scott,
> 
> I am interested in a feedback whether someone really tried to DoS your
> MX by misusing the Sendmail error described in the CVE.
> 
> Alexander
I used the sendmail rpms from City-fan.org, but I was still having problems.
Tried tracing what was causing the problem, but could not find any culprit.
I had added mimedefang about 10 days ago, but I disabled it and still problems.
Then the system started showing scsi bus resets and hangs... Now the true
culprit might be showing its face. I found a corrupted journal, and fsck the
drive, and things seem to be quiet. This is the last system I use an adaptec
sata-raid card in. When the system was new, I lost 2 drives in a 6 drive
raid-5 array. Might as well been all six, as the system was trashed.
Now this...  glad that the backup systems have 3ware's.
Maybe I will have to migrate this system to a 3ware. When I have time and can
convince the PHB's that it is the problem.

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