Kudos to Cliff Kreiger, who gave me the answer I needed in under 20
minutes!! The original question and Cliff's good answer follow!
Thanks Cliff!
Sheryl
>From: Cliff Krieger <ckrieger_at_latrade.com>
>Subject: Re: Q: Sendmail vulnerability
>To: campbell_at_lvc.edu (Sheryl A. Campbell)
>Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:05:36 -0500 (EST)
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>:I just received the CERT's advisory about sendmail. It recommends that you
>:upgrade to version 8.8.3. However, I don't even know how to check which
>:version I am running! (insert sheepish grin!) Please help.
>:
>
>I usually just telnet to port 25 and it tells me. For example, my mail
>server is called turtle:
>
>>telnet turtle 25
>Trying 147.141.123.28...
>Connected to turtle.dev.latrade.com.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>220 turtle Sendmail 5.65 (1.1.8.2/28Sep96-0213PM) Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:03:36
-050
>
>
>We can see that I am running 5.65 of Sendmail. DEC has chosen to
>standardize on this version and make fixes to it, so I think there is no
>easy comparison to the regular sendmail numbers. I would just call Dec
>and ask for all the latest security patches for sendmail. That way you
>can still get support from them if it breaks.
>
>-cliff
>
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Received on Thu Nov 21 1996 - 20:34:49 NZDT