[VulnDiscuss] Re: sendmail 8.12.8 available

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:08:09AM -0800, Claus Assmann wrote:

> 8.12.8/8.12.8	2003/02/11
> 	SECURITY: Fix a remote buffer overflow in header parsing by
> 		dropping sender and recipient header comments if the
> 		comments are too long.  Problem noted by Mark Dowd
> 		of ISS X-Force.
> 	Fix a potential non-exploitable buffer overflow in parsing the
> 		.cf queue settings and potential buffer underflow in
> 		parsing ident responses.  Problem noted by Yichen Xie of
> 		Stanford University Compilation Group.

Question: are the header and ident issues *only* remote overflow
problems, or is this also a local vulnerability?  Ie. if one has a
system that doesn't run sendmail in daemon mode (-bd), but does make
sendmail available as an SUID root binary for submission to the local
smarthost and does run sendmail is queue-process mode (ie. -q15m), is
the system still vulnerable?  Given that the problem is in the header
parsing, I would expect this to be both a remote and a local problem,
but I'd like to make sure before doing lots of upgrades.

Thanks.

- Morty