Bulletin Number: 00187

Title: Version 8.8.8 Sendmail for SunOS(tm) 5.6 and 5.5.1

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Create Date: June 7, 1999

Date: June 7, 1999

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1.  Bulletins Topics

    Sun announces the release of patches for Solaris(tm) 2.6 and 2.5.1
    (SunOS 5.6 and 5.5.1) containing Sun's implementation of 
    version 8.8.8 sendmail.

    Sun recommends that customers running SunOS 5.6 and 5.5.1 install the 
    patches listed in section 4 to take advantage of the security 
    enhancements found in version 8.8.8 sendmail.

2.  Understanding What is Available
	
    sendmail is a mail transfer agent, Copyright (C) Eric Allman and the
    University of California, which is freely available.  Their base version
    is commonly known as "Berkeley sendmail", as opposed to various vendors'
    versions of sendmail (including Sun's).  SunOS 5.6 and 5.5.1 originally 
    included version 8.6.9 of Berkeley sendmail, with Sun enhancements
    added.
    
    Various security related improvements were made in version 8.8.8 of 
    Berkeley sendmail, including improvements relating to email spam and
    bombs, and email relaying.	Sun's implementation of version 8.8.8 sendmail
    includes enhancements to address subsequently identified security 
    vulnerabilities and support for V1/Sun configuration files, used in 
    Sun's version of 8.6.9 sendmail.
    
3.  Support for Sun's sendmail
    
    With this release of version 8.8.8 sendmail, Sun will stop support
    for version 8.6.9 sendmail for SunOS 5.6 and 5.5.1.
        
4.  List of Patches

    Sun's implementation of version 8.8.8 sendmail is provided for SunOS 5.6 
    and 5.5.1 via these patches:

    OS Version		Patch ID	
    __________		_________
    SunOS 5.6           105395-05
    SunOS 5.6_x86       105396-05
    SunOS 5.5.1         103594-18
    SunOS 5.5.1_x86     103595-18

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APPENDICES

A.  Patches listed in this bulletin are available to all Sun customers at:
    
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-license&nav=pub-patches

B.  Checksums for the patches listed in this bulletin are available at:

    ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/CHECKSUMS

C.  Sun security bulletins are available at:

    http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/secBulletin.pl
	
D.  Sun Security Coordination Team's PGP key is available at:

    http://sunsolve.sun.com/pgpkey.txt
		    	    	    
E.  To report or inquire about a security problem with Sun software, contact 
    one or more of the following:
  
        - Your local Sun answer centers
        - Your representative computer security response team, such as CERT 
        - Sun Security Coordination Team. Send email to:
	 
     		security-alert@sun.com

F.  To receive information or subscribe to our CWS (Customer Warning System) 
    mailing list, send email to:
    
    		security-alert@sun.com
   
    with a subject line (not body) containing one of the following commands:

        Command         Information Returned/Action Taken
        _______         _________________________________

        help            An explanation of how to get information
        
        key             Sun Security Coordination Team's PGP key
	
        list            A list of current security topics

        query [topic]   The email is treated as an inquiry and is forwarded to 
                        the Security Coordination Team

        report [topic]  The email is treated as a security report and is
                        forwarded to the Security Coordination Team. Please 
                        encrypt sensitive mail using Sun Security Coordination
                        Team's PGP key

        send topic      A short status summary or bulletin. For example, to 
                        retrieve a Security Bulletin #00138, supply the 
                        following in the subject line (not body):
        		
                                send #138

        subscribe       Sender is added to our mailing list.  To subscribe, 
                        supply the following in the subject line (not body):

                            	subscribe cws your-email-address
			
                        Note that your-email-address should be substituted
                        by your email address.
			
        unsubscribe     Sender is removed from the CWS mailing list.
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