sendmail 8.14 has a serious memory corruption bug in it

Sascha Wildner saw at online.de
Tue Feb 19 23:39:37 PST 2008


Petr Janda wrote:
[...]
and would incidently be easier to maintain due to its small size. I think the 
very limited man power in DragonFly should be directed at writing new 
software, and not at updating old buggy and archaic software, which can be 
maintained elsewhere by others (ie. pkgsrc). 
Please check the facts.

The limited manpower in DragonFly has never had to be directed towards 
sendmail updating because Greg Shapiro from the sendmail team cares 
about this for us (also in FreeBSD), without making much fuss about it.

Sascha

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