Red Hat Reports Its Best Results Yet, Sep 19, 2003

Open source and Linux provider Red Hat Inc. on Thursday reported its financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal year, which executives said were the strongest since its inception as a listed company.

Novell is delaying shipment of its much anticipated Linux Services for NetWare product until the end of this year, due to a decision to integrate software code from Ximian, a recently acquired ISV that is very active in the Linux space.

Ximian code will show up in other future Novell products, too, including a Linux-based interface for Novell's GroupWise, and even possibly a desktop GUI from Novell.

Australian telco Telstra will be one of the first major customers to roll with Sun's Mad Hatter Linux desktop, according to a report in The Australian. Telstra has been trialling the product, released this week under the much more boring name of Sun Java Desktop, following its decision last year to investigate Linux systems as an alternative to Microsoft.

Openwave Systems said Thursday that its browser and e-mail software for cell phones is now compatible with Linux, which strengthens a Motorola-led push to use the open-source operating system in mobile phones.

Webmaster's note: Other vendors and distribution developers have also released new packages for sendmail

Two vulnerabilities were reported in sendmail.

- CAN-2003-0681

A "potential buffer overflow in ruleset parsing" for Sendmail 8.12.9, when using the nonstandard rulesets (1) recipient (2), final, or (3) mailer-specific envelope recipients, has unknown consequences.

- CAN-2003-0694

The prescan function in Sendmail 8.12.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via buffer overflow attacks, as demonstrated using the parseaddr function in parseaddr.c.

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