I use sendmail  8.17.1.9 under gentoo -- any patch for that one to fix this?

On Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:58:47 -0500,
Gellner, Oliver via mailop wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 28.12.2023 at 20:29 Marco Moock via mailop wrote:
> >
> > Am 28.12.2023 um 18:15:39 Uhr schrieb Tom Perrine via mailop:
> >
> >> Has anyone detected or seen any evidence of SMTP smuggling in the
> >> wild?
> >>
> >> I’m trying to get an independent read on how quickly the bad actors
> >> have (or haven’t) picked up on this, yet.
> >
> > According to the information I read, it affected some hosting solutions
> > at 1und1/IONOS, but that has been fixed.
> 
> The vulnerability is not super critical, but it has been fixed only for a 
> very small subset of affected systems. All kind of MTAs from Postfix to 
> Sendmail, Exim and various proprietary systems are affected and the 
> vulnerability generally remains unfixed until the administrators adjust the 
> configuration of their system.
> I haven’t heard of any large scale exploitation in the past, but I imagine 
> that spammers will include the technique in their toolset for the future.
> 
> > Although, it needs to have certain circumstances, so the sending server
> > (for example a submission server for the customer) must accept it as one
> > message and the receiving server (e.g. the outgoing relay) must
> > interpret it as 2 messages and the 1. server need to be allowed to
> > relay through the second one for the really bad attacks
> > (unauthenticated relaying).
> 
> To exploit the issue, an email message needs to traverse two MTAs that treat 
> the EOM marker differently. The MTAs do not need to be in a special trust 
> relationship or allowed to relay to each other.
> 
> —
> BR Oliver
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