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Re: [HTCondor-users] SECURITY: Addressing a problem in mailx
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:43:34 -0600
- From: Zachary Miller <zmiller@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [HTCondor-users] SECURITY: Addressing a problem in mailx
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 02:16:19PM -0600, Zachary Miller wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> You may have heard about a vulnerability in mailx. This has the potential to
> affect HTCondor because the default mail agent used by HTCondor on many systems
> is mailx.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169800
>
> We suggest you update mailx to the latest version. Alternatively, you can
> upgrade HTCondor to 8.2.6 (or 8.3.2) and configure HTCondor to use sendmail
> instead:
> http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/v8.2/3_3Configuration.html#18253
I should point out that when I sent this last month, I was mistaken that
upgrading mailx alone would fix this problem. As of 8.2.7, released yesterday,
using sendmail is now the default, and I highly suggest you upgrade.
I apologize for any confusion.
Cheers,
-zach