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sendmail (8.14.4-4.1ubuntu1.1) trusty-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Local users to access unintended high-numbered file
    descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program.
    - debian/patches/8.14/8.14.4/close_on_exec.patch: Properly set the
      close-on-exec flag for file descriptors before executing mailers.
    - CVE-2014-3956

 -- Eduardo Barretto <email address hidden>  Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:10:24 -0200

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Binary packages built by this source

libmilter-dev: Sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter)

 The Sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter) is designed to allow third-party
 programs access to mail messages as they are being processed in order
 to filter meta-information (headers) and content.
 .
 The Debian Sendmail package is built to support libmilter.
 .
 This is the libmilter static library and include files for development.
 .
 The documentation on building a Milter is in the sendmail-doc package.

libmilter-dev-dbgsym: debug symbols for package libmilter-dev

 The Sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter) is designed to allow third-party
 programs access to mail messages as they are being processed in order
 to filter meta-information (headers) and content.
 .
 The Debian Sendmail package is built to support libmilter.
 .
 This is the libmilter static library and include files for development.
 .
 The documentation on building a Milter is in the sendmail-doc package.

libmilter1.0.1: Sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter)

 The Sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter) is designed to allow third-party
 programs access to mail messages as they are being processed in order
 to filter meta-information(headers) and content.
 .
 The Debian Sendmail package is built to support libmilter.
 .
 This package contains libmilter.so

libmilter1.0.1-dbg: Sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter)

 The Sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter) is designed to allow third-party
 programs access to mail messages as they are being processed in order
 to filter meta-information(headers) and content.
 .
 The Debian Sendmail package is built to support libmilter.
 .
 This package contains debugging information for libmilter.so

libmilter1.0.1-dbgsym: debug symbols for package libmilter1.0.1

 The Sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter) is designed to allow third-party
 programs access to mail messages as they are being processed in order
 to filter meta-information(headers) and content.
 .
 The Debian Sendmail package is built to support libmilter.
 .
 This package contains libmilter.so

rmail: MTA->UUCP remote mail handler

 Rmail handles mail received via uucp and passes it to the local
 sendmail (or workalike).
 .
 This version comes from the sendmail source package and the only
 change is the call to sendmail (from -obq to -obi).

rmail-dbgsym: debug symbols for package rmail

 Rmail handles mail received via uucp and passes it to the local
 sendmail (or workalike).
 .
 This version comes from the sendmail source package and the only
 change is the call to sendmail (from -obq to -obi).

sendmail: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent

 Sendmail is an alternative Mail Transport Agent (MTA) for Debian.
 It is suitable for handling sophisticated mail configurations,
 although this means that its configuration can also be complex.
 .
 Fortunately, simple thing can be done easily, and complex things
 are possible, even if not easily understood ;) Sendmail is the *ONLY*
 MTA with a Turing complete language to control *ALL* aspects of delivery!
 .
 Sendmail provides Security and SPAM/UCE/UBE protection via several means.
 .
 Sendmail includes *no* Mail User Agents (MUA), you'll have to
 pick from the plethora of available MUAs (mutt, vm, etc.)
 .
 This package supports REGEX, DB, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, DNS maps,
 and has enabled TCPWrappers, IPv6, LockFile, SMTP AUTH(SASL), STARTTLS(SSL).
 .
 This package is to make installation/upgrading easier (Do NOT delete it)

sendmail-base: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent

 Sendmail is an alternative Mail Transport Agent (MTA) for
 Debian. It is suitable for handling sophisticated mail
 configurations, although this means that its configuration
 can also be complex.
 .
 This package contains the base, architecture independent, portions
 of the sendmail packages.

sendmail-bin: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent

 Sendmail is an alternative Mail Transport Agent (MTA) for Debian.
 It is suitable for handling sophisticated mail configurations,
 although this means that its configuration can also be complex.
 .
 Fortunately, simple thing can be done easily, and complex things
 are possible, even if not easily understood ;) Sendmail is the *ONLY*
 MTA with a Turing complete language to control *ALL* aspects of delivery!
 .
 Sendmail provides Security and SPAM/UCE/UBE protection via several means.
 .
 Sendmail includes *no* Mail User Agents (MUA), you'll have to
 pick from the plethora of available MUAs (mutt, vm, etc.)
 .
 This package supports REGEX, DB, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, DNS maps,
 and has enabled TCPWrappers, IPv6, LockFile, SMTP AUTH(SASL), STARTTLS(SSL).

sendmail-bin-dbgsym: debug symbols for package sendmail-bin

 Sendmail is an alternative Mail Transport Agent (MTA) for Debian.
 It is suitable for handling sophisticated mail configurations,
 although this means that its configuration can also be complex.
 .
 Fortunately, simple thing can be done easily, and complex things
 are possible, even if not easily understood ;) Sendmail is the *ONLY*
 MTA with a Turing complete language to control *ALL* aspects of delivery!
 .
 Sendmail provides Security and SPAM/UCE/UBE protection via several means.
 .
 Sendmail includes *no* Mail User Agents (MUA), you'll have to
 pick from the plethora of available MUAs (mutt, vm, etc.)
 .
 This package supports REGEX, DB, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, DNS maps,
 and has enabled TCPWrappers, IPv6, LockFile, SMTP AUTH(SASL), STARTTLS(SSL).

sendmail-cf: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent

 Sendmail is an alternative Mail Transport Agent (MTA) for
 Debian. It is suitable for handling sophisticated mail
 configurations, although this means that its configuration
 can also be complex.
 .
 This package contains the .m4 (configuration files) for the
 sendmail packages.

sendmail-doc: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent

 Sendmail is an alternative Mail Transport Agent (MTA) for
 Debian. It is suitable for handling sophisticated mail
 configurations, although this means that its configuration
 can also be complex.
 .
 Don't try anything fancy in sendmail without using this for guidance.
 .
 Because of the complexity, you may find yourself wanting to peruse
 the documentation files included herein. The main files are:
   cf.README.gz -- A reference for all things in sendmail.{mc,cf}
   op.{ps,txt}.gz -- The care and feeding of Sendmail.
   faq.txt.gz -- Sendmail FAQ, current as of the package date.
 .
 Other files include the references for smrsh and libmilter.

sensible-mda: Mail Delivery Agent wrapper

 Sensible-mda is a Debian addition in the sendmail package and has been
 split out in hopes that it might be useful for other MTA packages.
 .
 Sensible-mda is called by the MTA, and will in turn call whichever of
 the following MDAs that it finds (in this order):
 procmail, maildrop, deliver, mail.local

sensible-mda-dbgsym: debug symbols for package sensible-mda

 Sensible-mda is a Debian addition in the sendmail package and has been
 split out in hopes that it might be useful for other MTA packages.
 .
 Sensible-mda is called by the MTA, and will in turn call whichever of
 the following MDAs that it finds (in this order):
 procmail, maildrop, deliver, mail.local