On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Ian C. Sison wrote:

> I guess this puts all the MTA 'flame wars' to rest.  At the very least
> this issue causes a DoS.  It won't be too long when an actual worm will
> exploit this to the hilt.  All those who still have sendmail running
> should do themselves a favor, get rid of sendmail now and move to postfix
> or qmail.

I won't answer this one. This has been discussed
twice already. While we are at it, let's ditch
apache too and run zeus instead. Take a look at
securityfocus.com why.

> Those running firewalls and think they are protected by them should think
> again.  Most firewalls allow port 25 (used by sendmail/SMTP) to pass
> through unrestricted.

Wrong. I'll give you in to a little secret. Some
companies have already the modules/updates to
their firewalls/ids for sendmail vulnerability
CA-2003-07 *weeks* before you even saw the info
from CERT.

regards,
---
Andre M. Varon, SCSA
http://andre.lasaltech.com


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