Any word on a ported sendmail 8.12.10 yet?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Sep 18 16:03:59 PDT 2003


On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:57:18PM +0000, Mark wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kris Kennaway" <kris at obsecurity.org>
> To: "Mark" <admin at asarian-host.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Any word on a ported sendmail 8.12.10 yet?
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:34:08PM +0000, Mark wrote:
> 
> > > Not to be overly impatient, but is there any word on a ported sendmail
> > > 8.12.10 yet? I am still eagerly awaiting a chance to do away with the
> > > latest critical security problem, such as discovered the other day.
> 
> > The security problem has already been patched.
> 
> In that case, pardon my ignorance, but where do I get the patch? I checked
> under the "Security Advisories" section on the FreeBSD site, and read,
> "Latest update: September 16, 2003".

Security advisories are not issued for ports.

> Or do you mean I should just redownload 8.12.9 from the ports, and that this
> version is already patched? Or should I grab the patch from sendmail.org?
> Sorry to sound a bit daft here, but I really want to have this problem
> solved soon.

Update your ports collection.  In general, if you want to track
changes to the ports tree, subscribe to the cvs mailing list, consult
the CVS repository or freshports.org to track changes.

e.g. http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/mail/sendmail

Kris
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