Reports of a new security vulnerability in sendmail have been circulating, together with proof-of-concept exploit code. This raises fears of an imminent new Internet worm problem, unless existing vulnerable implementations are patched in time.
March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In computer software a security vulnerability is a software bug that can be used deliberately to violate security. ... Sendmail is an open source mail transfer agent (MTA): a computer program for the routing and delivery of email. ... An exploit is a common term in the computer security community to refer to a piece of software that takes advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability, leading to privilege escalation or denial of service on a computer system. ... A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program, similar to a computer virus. ... In computing, a patch is a software update meant to fix problems with a computer program. ...
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