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Date:      Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:25:55 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
To:        michael@blueneptune.com
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: procmail (was Re: qmail/ezmlm)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980902172413.1035D-100000@aniwa.sky>
In-Reply-To: <199809020438.VAA17358@rainey.blueneptune.com>

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Try increasing the ammount of input.  I used 15000 rather than the 5000
used by the author of the original post.

Andrew



On Tue, 1 Sep 1998 michael@blueneptune.com wrote:

> 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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