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Date:      Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:38:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      michael@blueneptune.com
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        andrew@squiz.co.nz
Subject:   Re: procmail (was Re: qmail/ezmlm)
Message-ID:  <199809020438.VAA17358@rainey.blueneptune.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980902152834.1035A-100000@aniwa.sky> from Andrew McNaughton at "Sep 2, 98 03:44:29 pm"

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I tried the following using version 3.11pre7 of procmail, under
FreeBSD 2.2.6, and did not see any corruption.  It just said it
couldn't open the file, and exited normally.

> I haven't yet seen exploit code, but evidence of probable exploitability
> was tacked onto stuff about mincom in a BUGTRAQ item on monday.  I've
> confirmed that the registers get corrupted in my version of procmail
> (3.11) under FreeBSD (2.2.5).
> 
> --------------- Forwarded message follows ----------------
> [...]
> 
> woozle:~> gdb ./procmail
> [...]
> (gdb)  r `perl -e 'print "A" x 5000'`
> Starting program: /home/emsi/./procmail `perl -e 'print "A" x 5000'`
> 
> [You need to type ^D here!!!]
> 
> procmail: Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/emsi"
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

-- 
Michael Bryan
michael@blueneptune.com

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