March 14, 2010 unix clear, mail queue, mailq, mqueue, sendmail disbale, sendmail stop, solaris 10 jamal ahmed. Hi ramdev, sendmail clients are mix of solaris 10, solaris 9, rhel. The package might work with solaris 11, but use it at your own risk. A security vulnerability in sendmail1m versions prior to. Security vulnerability in sendmail1m versions prior to 8. A security vulnerability in sendmail1m versions prior to 8. Search brings up many old post on how to complie sasl and sendmail, but id rather use a built in, supported version if there is now one availble. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. This version of sendmail is affected by this vulnerability. Seding attachment through mailx on sun solaris codeproject. The and files are the configuration files for sendmail1m. Sendmail versions these are the versions of sendmail i recommend and how to achieve them, as of approximately the year 2000. Problem detected by michal zalewski, patch from todd c. The ultimate solaris sendmail troubleshooting guide the.
Can anyone tell me if solaris 10 now comes with a sendmail binary that supports smtp auth. Although postfix is not in opensolaris, a custom version of it is used by to deliver email. The current solaris 8 sendmail patches 11061514 for sparc and 11061614 for x86 update sendmail to version 8. The solaris 8 patches which will address this vulnerability will update sendmail to version 8. All or local so i added this line and every thing is ok now. How to find the lun id of the newly assigned disk to sun solaris 5. As far as i know, oracle has took over sun long back, then why there is this difference. Upgrading sendmail to postfix on solaris oracle solaris blog.
General sun, sunos and sparc related questions also go here. In either case i dont know of any servers that come with solaris so you need to install them on your own. A useafterfree vulnerability in sendmail versions before 8. Changing the sendmail configuration oracle solaris. How to configure sendmails smart relay host to configure a solaris servers smart relay host, most people will simply edit the ds entry in etcmail and leave it at that. This is due to insufficient bounds checking in a char to int data type conversion. Find answers to set up smtp for sendmail on solaris 10 from the expert community at experts exchange.
The solaris 9 and 10 patches will update sendmail to 8. In addition, we detail here a few improvements to the customer warning system. Apple conectiva has released updated packages for conectiva linux and enterprise edition at the following links, respectively. This techrecipe describes some of its uses in listing numerous packages. This package is to replace sendmail on solaris 10, so you have to uninstall sendmail first. Starting in the solaris 10 release, sendmail includes a configuration option that enables you to define the version of the file. Weve recently moved to a monthly release cadence for solaris 10 os patches. If a listed patch is not installed, then determine if a more recent version is installed before installing the version listed. Click to share on twitter opens in new window click to share on facebook opens in new window click to share on tumblr opens in new window.
Unfortunately we were forced to release this version early without having a chance to coordinate with vendors that distribute sendmail. Ensure that the most recent patch of sendmail is installed. After installing patches, check that the sendmail version that you want to run is still in. Review smtpgreetingmessage to ensure that the smtp login message omits version information.
For information about tcp wrapper support, see sendmail version 8. If you patch with all current patches as of a certain date you might have the equivalent of a newer release even. The ultimate solaris sendmail troubleshooting guide. The difference between the sendmail daemon in solaris 910 and prior versions. The solaris 8 patches which address this vulnerability will update sendmail to version 8. The versions of ssh and sendmail that ship with solaris 10 will automatically use tcp wrappers to filter access if a hosts. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. The default installation of sendmail on solaris 10 11 has not been built with support for sasl which. None of the patches or vulnerabilities discussed here are new.
If your isp delivers incoming mail by means of smtp, please also read configuring sendmail to accept incoming email. Verifying operating system patches on oracle solaris 10. I have a sendmail server on a solaris 10 server thats stopped working. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 10 release. These are also the last postfix packages im going to provide for solaris 10 and will no longer build and any new postfix packages. To list all packages installed on a solaris system, use the following. In midmarch, 2003 after sendmail had two rootcompromise security flaws revealed in as many weeks, i decided that i would switch to postfix for my home mail system.
In fact, i believe that sendmail is terribly bloated and has a design fundamentally incompatible with what one wants. This is not a warranty that these versions of sendmail are secure. The book covers a broad range of solaris network administration topics such as remote file systems, mail, slp, and ppp. Solaris 10 patches now on monthly release cadence oracle. New solaris 10 os patches are now available from mos by the tuesday closest to 17th of each month. Spending time on sendmail is like dying a little bit sooner. Sources indicate that this is a remote exploit yielding a root compromise only platforms with char type signed by default are considered vulnerable. Oracle solaris command reference for linux users fujitsu. The patch and updated version corrects a buffer overflow in address parsing. Starting in the solaris 10 release, sendmail includes a configuration option that enables you to define the version of the sendmail.
Topics are described for both sparc and x86 systems, where appropriate. Solaris opensolaris this forum is for the discussion of solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, and illumos. How to find the lun id of the newly assigned disk to sun. Oracle solaris version of sendmail oracle solaris administration. Does solaris 10 sendmail support smtp auth server fault.
The sender address goes through rule 10, while the. This is a minor change to this version of sendmail and this is tracked using bugid 6403051. By removing the stock sendmail packages, sendmail patches will not be installed, and we will not have this problem. Smtp sendmail already comes with solaris and for the most part doesnt need any configuring so thats already done. Unless you transition to oracle solaris 10 extended support, you will not be able to. Use the daemon name sendmail to enable use of tcp wrappers. Whereas internal mta relay server is configured on primary internal dns server which is solaris 9 update 7. Also, this script works on other solaris box which has same version as sunos 5. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. Reverse dependencies 0 reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on sendmail. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Patches 101739, 102066 and 102064 are necessary to upgrade sendmail version from 5. If only the is restored, then version mismatch messages often result. Solaris 8 will be patched to update sendmail to version 8.
I am just wondering what is bind and os version you are using. Defines environment for msp mail submission program sendmail daemons. Ensure that the proper ownerships and file permissions are applied to sendmail binary, configuration file, sendmail scripts and other sendmail directories and files. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Problem solution top the following table shows sendmail versions. This option enables older configuration files to be used with the current version of sendmail. How to configure sendmails smart relay host solaris. The pkginfo command in solaris is capable of providing detailed information about the packages installed on a system. If an operating system patch is not installed, then download and install it from my oracle support. We list below only the changes since the previous version of sendmail.
Solaris 2 is a version of unix which was not designed for security. This page covers the configuration of sendmail on solaris 7 and solaris 8 to send outgoing mail to an isp using smtp. Solaris 9 uses 2 queue paradigm and thus there are 2 sendmail daemons. Also, systems using sendmail privilege separation should be less susceptible to a. Sun can confirm that solaris 8, 9, and 10 are affected by this issue. Its probably something weird in your tcp implementation that makes the ident code act oddly.
Whats funny is every now and then a message gets out of the server then it stops working again for a while. I just upgraded to version 8 sendmail and suddenly connections to the smtp port take a long time. The updated solaris 10 os recommended patchset will be available by the next day, wednesday, assuming there are new patches released which meet its inclusion criteria. Fujitsu m10sparc m10 systems system operation and administration guide. I cant seem to find anything about failed messages in varadmsendmail. Starting in the solaris 10 106 release, smtp can use transport layer security tls in version 8. So the issue is the imap or pop3 part of the puzzle. The solaris 9 and 10 patches which address this issue will update sendmail directly to version 8. A similar page describes the compilation, installation and configuration of fetchmail to collect incoming mail from an isps pop3 server.
This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. Sendmail experts tend to call themselves wizardsas if complex, buggy, mysterious, hardtouse software is acceptable. Solaris version of sendmail system administration guide. By removing the stock sendmail packages, sendmail patches will not be. This service to smtp servers and clients provides private, authenticated communications over the internet, as well as protection from eavesdroppers and attackers. Fail2banusers issues with solaris 10 x86 fail2banusers issues with solaris 10 x86 from.
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