OT: Sendmail

[NTIN Page Guy]

Hello Raymond,

 Thursday, September 18, 2003, you wrote:


RD> Hi!

>>   I updated sendmail at redhat.com yesterday, but the version didn't
>>   change.  Im told all versions 8.12.9 and lower suffer from this flaw
>>   and I should be running 8.12.10 but redhat gave me 8.12.8 which was
>>   the version I already was running.
>>
>>   Hope no-one mines this off topic post.

RD> Redhat for example backported the fixes, they always do...

RD> Bye,
RD> Raymond.

Thanks for the reply, I realized just after I posted my mistake

I missed some key wording in the Redhat Errata update

"All users are advised to update to these erratum packages containing a
BACKPORTED PATCH which corrects these vulnerabilities."

My mistake, thanks again.

Best regards,
Robert B, NTIN                           mailto:pages at ntin.net