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Date:      Sun, 17 Nov 1996 02:06:55 +0100 (MET)
From:      Wolfgang Ley <ley@cert.dfn.de>
To:        spork@super-g.com (S)
Cc:        karl@Mcs.Net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: New sendmail bug...
Message-ID:  <199611170106.CAA10374@tiger.cert.dfn.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.92.961116172335.13136A-100000@super-g.inch.com> from "S" at Nov 16, 96 05:24:55 pm

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S wrote:
>
> Thanks, also I just installed smrsh on a whim (I'm definetly not a C
> expert, very very novice here) and smrsh (included in the sendmail dist)
> takes care of the problem as well...  Exploit to follow...

smrsh won't help you protecting against the new problem (restarting
sendmail via sighup and modified argv[0]).

sendmail 8.8.3 (which is currently being tested) will fix the problem.

Or are you talking about another (new?) problem?

Bye,
  Wolfgang.
- --
Wolfgang Ley, DFN-CERT, Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30, 22527 Hamburg,    Germany
Email: ley@cert.dfn.de   Phone: +49 40 5494-2262 Fax: +49 40 5494-2241
PGP-Key available via finger ley@ftp.cert.dfn.de any key-server or via
WWW from http://www.cert.dfn.de/~ley/               ...have a nice day

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