Hello gang,

I usually wouldn't muck around with stuff like this on an Oracle list, but
there's two major security vulnerabilities out in the last few days for *nix
boxen that create remote root exploitable situations.  One is with OpenSSH:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0693

Basically, all versions before 3.7 have a remotely exploitable buffer
overflow - I am unsure whether exploits have been seen in the wild.

The other is with sendmail:

http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.10.html

while this is a remotely exploitable situation, no known exploits exist in
the wild (yet).

I know just about every vendor has ssh patches already - the sendmail one
may be a bit too new for vendor-supplied patches, but give them a call and
start haranguing them.

I promise, I'll avoid this in the future, but hopefully some of y'all will
get your SAs to patch up your servers.

Good luck,
Matt

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