sendmail bug & no smtp

[Laszlo Csizmadia]

There is a sendmail bug announced on March 29: http://www.sendmail.com/security/index.shtml
Is there any patch provided by HP for that? The previous bug (March 3) was fixed but I didn't read anything about the second in the security bulletins. I mostly have sendmail version 8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098).
Is there a way to stop the sendmail smtp daemons only? Most of my machines are only sending mails (via smart host) and not excepted to recieve any. So no need to keep port 25 open, right?
Any help will be appreciated...

[John Dvorchak]

Correct, if you don't need sendmail running just kill it and don't let it start up at reboot. Users on that system will still be able to send mail with the daemon turned off. This works because sendmail will be invoked on a per use basis by the mail progam wanting to send mail. i.e. elm, mailx or sendmail itself. To find the sendmail daemon:

ps -ef|grep send

and then just kill the process.