There's a vulnerability in Sendmail that allows remote attacks by buffer-overflow. The security hole could be used for denial of service attacks against e-mail routing infrastructure.

This is just the latest problem with Sendmail, which has had other similar vulnerabilities (this is the third this year).

But you never hear about sendmail attacks in the press, now do you? And the patch for the problem was ready for deployment within 5 days of the bug being reported on the Full-Disclosure list.

I got a quick look at the keynote at Sun’s SunNetworking conference in San Francisco this morning, from my desk here in Baltimore. The view was courtesy of Simon Phipps and his PowerBook and iSight camera, via a wireless LAN connection at Moscone, to me on Apple’s iChat A/V.

This convergence of wireless networking and audio-video realtime conferencing is waaaay cool. It is portentous, in the same classs of developments as camera/phones and moblogging. It’s like peer-to-peer TV news.

I had been in doubt about how well my iSight camera was working with my old reliable G4 Cube; despite being able to conference within my LAN, my attempts to conferene with an old colleague had been discouraging. I was convinced the problem was the speed of the G4’s bus, or processing speed, or (worse yet) its cable modem connection being too slow.

It turns out, however, that it’s his problem.