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Major Internet vulnerability discovered in e-mail protocolBy DAN VERTONMARCH 03, 2003The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been working in secret for more than two weeks with the private sector to fix a major Internet vulnerability that could have had disastrous consequences for millions of businesses and the U.S. military. Since Feb. 14, the DHS and the White House Office of Cyberspace Security have been working with Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems (ISS) to alert IT vendors and the business community about a major buffer overflow vulnerability in the sendmail mail transfer agent (MTA). Sendmail is the most common MTA and...

Companies mobilize to patch Sendmail By Robert Lemos CNET News.com March 3, 2003, 12:28 PM PT A critical vulnerability in Sendmail, the Internet's most popular mail-server application, has security experts and software companies moving quickly on Monday to convince customers to apply a patch. The flaw allows an attacker to send a specially formatted e-mail that could take control of a mail server running Sendmail and execute a malicious program. At present, no attack tool that could exploit the vulnerability is known to exist, said Greg Olson, chairman and co-founder of Sendmail, the company that has created a commercial version...

Hackers send Sendmail a message Online vandals hacked into the primary download server for Sendmail.org and replaced key software with a Trojan horse, a Sendmail development team member said Wednesday. The apparent attack on Sendmail didn't leave a back door in the popular open-source e-mail software package, as previously believed, but compromised the download software on the Sendmail consortium's primary server so that every tenth request for source code would receive a modified copy in reply. "The exploited code that we see is not in our (development) tree at all," said Eric Allman, chief technology officer of Sendmail Inc., which...