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 Re: [security-alerts] Fwd: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail
 
 3APA3A wrote:
>Dear Alexander Dilevsky,
>
>На sendmail.org написано.
>
>Sendmail 8.13.6 release notes
>
>8.13.6/8.13.6 2006/03/22
>SECURITY: Replace unsafe use of setjmp(3)/longjmp(3) in the server
>and client side of sendmail with timeouts in the libsm I/O
>layer and fix problems in that code.  Also fix handling of
>a buffer in sm_syslog() which could have been used as an
>attack vector to exploit the unsafe handling of
>setjmp(3)/longjmp(3) in combination with signals.
>Problem detected by Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force.
>
>Т.е.  идея  понятна,  есть  некий  буфер  куда  можно  положить шелкод и
>передать управление используя кратковременные условия (thread завершился
>до того, как longjmp сработал).
>
>  
>
Идея-то понятна, а патчить как?
Попробовать воспроизвести ход мыслей Марка? :)
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 Alexander Dilevsky
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