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Date:      Tue, 1 Sep 1998 22:01:29 -0500
From:      dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org>
To:        andrew@squiz.co.nz, "'freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: qmail/ezmlm
Message-ID:  <19980901220129.A2253@enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980902120717.596J-100000@aniwa.sky>; from Andrew McNaughton on Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 12:12:03PM %2B1200
References:  <19980901141936.G1202@enteract.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980902120717.596J-100000@aniwa.sky>

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On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 12:12:03PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote:

> Has anyone investigated the buffer overflow problems in procmail?  I saw a
> recent message about buffer overflows from the command line which looked
> to be exploitable.  Not suid, so probably not important.  It would be a
> different case if these could be reached by a specially constructed email
> sent to a machine using procmail as a local delivery agent.

Hadn't heard about that, but I see it's SUID so this concern is extremely
valid.  Our concern is/was that procmail supposedly reads the entire message
into memory, which implicates performance issues as well.

*shrug*

For mere mortals, it's good enough. :)

-danny

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