Re: dsa-257

2003-03-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Then please provide a diff for for dsa-257.{data,wml} file, especially for the text. I'm out of ideas how to do it correct and definitely am not the person who should make this decisions -- after all I'm not part of the security team. I have no idea how

Re: dsa-257

2003-03-06 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-03-05 14:47]: It is the exact same issue which just happens to be present in multiple source packages. To me it makes perfect since to do that in a single advisory. Then please provide a diff for for dsa-257.{data,wml} file, especially for the text

Re: dsa-257

2003-03-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:30:57AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Then please provide a diff for for dsa-257.{data,wml} file, especially for the text. I'm out of ideas how to do it correct Rename the -2 advisory to 999, convert it to .data+.wml using parse-advisory.pl and then merge the new

Re: dsa-257

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Stone
Affected Packages: sendmail, sendmail-wide Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force found a bug in the header parsing routines of sendmail: it could overflow a buffer overflow when encountering addresses with very long comments. Since sendmail also parses headers when forwarding emails this vulnerability can

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-257-1] sendmail remote exploit

2003-03-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously ChristopherHuhn wrote: I was surprised beeing forced to downgrade to the security release now, as your FAQ points out that proposed-updates should be covered by security upgrades just like stable. Perhaps the wording in the security FAQ is unstable; what it is trying to say is

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-257-1] sendmail remote exploit

2003-03-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:49:23PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: I was surprised beeing forced to downgrade to the security release now, as your FAQ points out that proposed-updates should be covered by security upgrades just like stable. Perhaps the wording in the security FAQ is

Re: dsa-257

2003-03-05 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-03-04 14:42]: could whoever's doing web pages for security advisories these days take a look at dsa 257? It can be done by anyone with webwml cvs write access. I have now committed dsa-257-1, but onfortunately I don't know what to do with dsa-257-2. I

Re: dsa-257

2003-03-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Gerfried Fuchs wrote: It can be done by anyone with webwml cvs write access. I have now committed dsa-257-1, but onfortunately I don't know what to do with dsa-257-2. I guess it should have been dsa-258-1 instead, for it is for a completely different package (different source

Re: dsa-257

2003-03-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:35:26PM +0100, you wrote: a completely different package (different source package). I have no ideas how to incorporate the data nicely into the dsa-257.{data,wml} files -- you guys (security-team) have to decide. This has been done before, IIRC. Just put all

dsa-257

2003-03-04 Thread Michael Stone
could whoever's doing web pages for security advisories these days take a look at dsa 257? Mike Stone