Sendmail - 8.14.4

Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability of sendmail 8.14.4. This version fixes some problems:

For a full list of changes see the release notes down below.

Please send bug reports and general feedback to one of the usual addresses.

The version can be found at

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Errata

Since sendmail 8.11 and later includes hooks to cryptography, the following information from OpenSSL applies to sendmail as well.

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			SENDMAIL RELEASE NOTES
      $Id: RELEASE_NOTES,v 8.1963 2009/12/23 04:43:46 ca Exp $

This listing shows the version of the sendmail binary, the version of the sendmail configuration files, the date of release, and a summary of the changes in that release.

8.14.4/8.14.4	2009/12/30
	SECURITY: Handle bogus certificates containing NUL characters
		in CNs by placing a string indicating a bad certificate
		in the {cn_subject} or {cn_issuer} macro.  Patch inspired
		by Matthias Andree's changes for fetchmail.
	During the generation of a queue identifier an integer overflow
		could occur which might result in bogus characters
		being used.  Based on patch from John Vannoy of
		Pepperdine University.
	The value of headers, e.g., Precedence, Content-Type, et.al.,
		was not processed correctly.  Patch from Per Hedeland.
	Between 8.11.7 and 8.12.0 the length limitation on a return
		path was erroneously reduced from MAXNAME (256) to
		MAXSHORTSTR (203).  Patch from John Gardiner Myers
		of Proofpoint; the problem was also noted by Steve
		Hubert of University of Washington.
	Prevent a crash when a hostname lookup returns a seemingly
		valid result which contains a NULL pointer (this seems
		to be happening on some Linux versions).
	The process title was missing the current load average when
		the MTA was delaying connections due to DelayLA.
		Patch from Dick St.Peters of NetHeaven.
	Do not reset the number of queue entries in shared memory if
		only some of them are processed.
	Fix overflow of an internal array when parsing some replies
		from a milter.  Problem found by Scott Rotondo
		of Sun Microsystems.
	If STARTTLS is turned off in the server (via M=S) then it
		would not be initialized for use in the client either.
		Patch from Kazuteru Okahashi of IIJ.
	If a Diffie-Hellman cipher is selected for STARTTLS, the
		handshake could fail with some TLS implementations
		because the prime used by the server is not long enough.
		Note: the initialization of the DSA/DH parameters for
		the server can take a significant amount of time on slow
		machines. This can be turned off by setting DHParameters
		to none or a file (see doc/op/op.me).  Patch from
		Petr Lampa of the Brno University of Technology.
	Fix handling of `b' modifier for DaemonPortOptions on little
		endian machines for loopback address.  Patch from
		John Beck of Sun Microsystems.
	Fix a potential memory leak in libsmdb/smdb1.c found by parfait.
		Based on patch from Jonathan Gray of OpenBSD.
	If a milter sets the reply code to "421" during the transfer
		of the body, the SMTP server will terminate the SMTP session
		with that error to match the behavior of the other callbacks.
	Return EX_IOERR (instead of 0) if a mail submission fails due to
		missing disk space in the mail queue.  Based on patch
		from Martin Poole of RedHat.
	CONFIG: Using FEATURE(`ldap_routing')'s `nodomain' argument would
		cause addresses not found in LDAP to be misparsed.
	CONFIG: Using a CN restriction did not work for TLS_Clt as it
		referred to a wrong macro.  Patch from John Gardiner
		Myers of Proofpoint.
	CONFIG: The option relaytofulladdress of FEATURE(`access_db')
		did not work if FEATURE(`relay_hosts_only') is used too.
		Problem noted by Kristian Shaw.
	CONFIG: The internal function lower() was broken and hence
		strcasecmp() did not work either, which could cause
		problems for some FEATURE()s if upper case arguments
		were used.  Patch from Vesa-Matti J Kari of the
		University of Helsinki.
	LIBMILTER: Fix internal check whether a milter application
		is compiled against the same version of libmilter as
		it is linked against (especially useful for dynamic
		libraries).
	LIBMILTER: Fix memory leak that occurred when smfi_setsymlist()
		was used.  Based on patch by Dan Lukes.
	LIBMILTER: Document the effect of SMFIP_HDR_LEADSPC for filters
		which add, insert, or replace headers.  From Benjamin
		Pineau.
	LIBMILTER: Fix error messages which refer to "select()" to be
		correct if SM_CONF_POLL is used.  Based on patch from
		John Nemeth.
	LIBSM: Fix handling of LDAP search failures where the error is
		carried in the search result itself, such as seen with
		OpenLDAP proxy servers.
	VACATION: Do not refer to a local variable outside its scope.
		Based on patch from Mark Costlow of Southwest Cyberport.
	Portability:
		Enable HAVE_NANOSLEEP for SunOS 5.11. Patch from
		John Beck of Sun Microsystems.
		Drop NISPLUS from default SunOS 5.11 map definitions.
		Patch from John Beck of Sun Microsystems.