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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:33:54 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED" <mencl@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: suidperl exploit 
Message-ID:  <200008110333.VAA31525@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:36:25 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008101434470.54452-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008101434470.54452-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>  

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<Pine.BSF.4.21.0008101434470.54452-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> Kris
Kennaway writes:
: I believe FreeBSD to be safe from this particular misfeature - FreeBSD's
: mail(1) program lives in another location, as already noted, and I don't
: even know if it supports the required features to exploit it.

We do support getting variables from the environment in our mail.  We
need to look into all the implications.  Of course, most programs on
the system use sendmail directly.

Warner


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