Bug 186605 - sendmail security update reverts to SASL from SASLv2
Summary: sendmail security update reverts to SASL from SASLv2
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: sendmail
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Woerner
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-24 17:15 UTC by Don Close
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-03-27 08:45:36 UTC
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Description Don Close 2006-03-24 17:15:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
Original package:

sendmail -d0.1 -bv xxx
Version 8.12.10
 Compiled with: DNSMAP HESIOD HES_GETMAILHOST LDAPMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS
MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS
PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB USE_LDAP_INIT

Note: uses SASLv2


Installed latest package of sendmail:  sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.4

/usr/sbin/sendmail.2006 -d0.1 -bv xxx
Version 8.12.11.20060308
 Compiled with: DNSMAP HESIOD HES_GETMAILHOST LDAPMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS
MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS
PIPELINING SASL SCANF STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB USE_LDAP_INIT

Note: reverts to SASL

Result: Users are no longer able to authenticate for smtp





How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Apply security update
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Users can't authenticate for smtp

Expected results:
Users can authenticate for smtp

Additional info: SASLv2 and PAM configuration files were overwritten making
reverting to previous binary difficult.
Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2006-03-27 08:45:36 UTC 
Please have a look at #124086 and #125383.

Since sendmail-8.12.11-3.3 the RHEL-3 package is supporting SASLv1, only.

Closing as "NOT A BUG".
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