From: Theodore Tso <tytso(_at_)mit(_dot_)edu>
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And this is what it makes it different from the buffer overruns in
sendmail. ....
Which sendmail buffer overruns or other security problems do yo mean?
There have been security problems in sendmail, but far, far fewer than
the common, so called wisdom claims. Many of them have been self-inflicted
by users, like the uudecode alias.
See
http://search.cert.org/query.html?rq=0&col=allcert&ht=0&qp=&qs=&qc=&pw=100%25&ws=1&la=&qm=0&st=1&nh=25&lk=1&rf=2&oq=&rq=0&si=1&qt=sendmail
and notice the dates as well as actual connections to sendmail of much of
what you'll find.
See also http://www.sendmail.org/.
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com