On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Paul Jacobs wrote:
> At 03:51 AM 7/1/2003, you wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> > > >>It is the SoBig.E virus being sent to user's mailboxes. It hit my
mail
> > > >>server as quickly as I read the news about it yesterday and numerous
> > > >>times. Interestingly, the news about the virus does not report
that it is
> > > >>sending an oversize mail header. Is this an indication that it was
> > > >>designed to take advantage of the sendmail vulnerability that we
patched
> > > >>a few months ago? You did patch for the oversized header
vulnerability
> > > >>didn't you?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Was that a cobalt patch or a non-cobalt patch?
> > > >
> > > I run email on a RaQ3, for which there is not a Sun patch. I used the
> > > SolarSpeed patch.
> >
> >I also run the solarspeed patch on a raq3 and although the messages still
> >appear
> >in the maillog sendmail still appears okay.
> >
> >Jon
>
> Yes, i also put in the patch on A RAQ4R I have running and still get
the error.
this is not an error. this is normal behaviour from Sendmail in these
circumstances.
rgds,
netcat