On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Chris L. Franklin wrote:

> Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
>> There is a possible buffer overflow vulnerability in all versions of XMail
>> previous to 1.22. This does not affect the server itself, but the XMail's
>> sendmail binary. Since many runs the XMail's sendmail as suid root, the
>> issue can be critical, even if not easily exploitable w/out knowing the
>> server setup. I'd suggest everyone to update to 1.22 ASAP:
>>
>> http://www.xmailserver.org
>>
>>
>>
>> PS: Mitre has assigned CAN-2005-2943 to this issue.
>>
>>
>> - Davide
>>
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> When doing a rpm upgrade I now get this error, any reason ?
>
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        linux-gate.so.1 is needed by xmail-1.22-1.i386
>
>
> Ps. I did NOT get this with prior versions.

I think RPM-build scripts on Debian failed to remove the virtual 
dependency from linux-gate.so.1. This is not supposed to exist:

http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/08/linux-gate/

But the dependency builder did not filter it out. Just build binaries from 
scratch until they fix RPM scripts.



- Davide


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