[Mimedefang] Sendmail Prescan Vulnerability

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Ray Parish wrote:

> I searched thru the archives and didn't find an exact example how people
> are not allowing the sendmail prescan vulnerability \\\377\\\377.
> I am seeing this in my logs and would like to reject these messages.

It's too late to do this in a milter.  You need to be running a
properly-updated Sendmail version to be safe.

I suppose you could use a milter to protect downstream mail relays,
but it's safer to upgrade all your sendmail relays to the latest
version.

--
David.