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Sendmail DoS vulnerability

I've got to admit, I hadn't caught the notice of this until it was at incidents.org. I don't currently administer sendmail on any machines, but.... Sendmail released version 8.13.8 on August 9th to a…

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I've got to admit, I hadn't caught the notice of this until it was at incidents.org. I don't currently administer sendmail on any machines, but.... Sendmail released version 8.13.8 on August 9th to address several issues (including a DoS vulnerability). It was possible for a specially crafted email to trigger the problem.