[Updated] [FLSA-2006:186277] Updated sendmail packages fix security issue
Adam Gibson
agibson at ptm.com
Wed Apr 5 16:50:13 UTC 2006
One thing I noticed after the latest yum update of sendmail from the
previous update is that alternatives is broken for /etc/pam.d/smtp for
the sendmail package. Sendmail used to create /etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail
which alternatives would create a symlink at /etc/pam.d/smtp to
eventually point to the current configured smtp pam config
(/etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail for sendmail).
a yum update showed this:
warning: /etc/pam.d/smtp created as /etc/pam.d/smtp.rpmnew
# ls -al /etc/pam.d/smtp*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mar 28 12:48 /etc/pam.d/smtp
-> /etc/alternatives/mta-pam
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116 Mar 26 22:37 smtp.rpmnew
# ls -al /etc/alternatives/mta-pam
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Mar 28 12:48
/etc/alternatives/mta-pam -> /etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail
smtp.sendmail no longer exists. It appears to just be directly smtp now
which was stored as smtp.rpmnew because the symlink created by
alternatives was at /etc/pam.d/smtp. Issuing an alternatives --config
mta will just setup /etc/pam.d/smtp to eventually point to
/etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail again which does not exist.
Moving /etc/pam.d/smtp.rpmnew to /etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail fixes the
problem for me.
I do not know what the ramifications are of having a broken symlink to
/etc/pam.d/smtp but it must be used for something.
Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fedora Legacy Update Advisory
>
> Synopsis: Updated sendmail packages fix security issue
> Advisory ID: FLSA:186277
> Issue date: 2006-04-04
> Product: Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core
> Keywords: Bugfix, Security
> CVE Names: CVE-2006-0058
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1. Topic:
>
> Updated sendmail packages that fix a security issue are now
> available.
>
> The sendmail package provides a widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA).
>
> [Updated 4th April 2006]
> Red Hat Linux 7.3, Red Hat Linux 9, and Fedora Core 1 packages have been
> updated to correct numerous problems with the previously released
> updates.
>
> 2. Relevant releases/architectures:
>
> Red Hat Linux 7.3 - i386
> Red Hat Linux 9 - i386
> Fedora Core 1 - i386
> Fedora Core 2 - i386
> Fedora Core 3 - i386, x86_64
>
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