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Re: Security problem in C news and INN
From: rafi () tavor openu ac il (Rafi Sadowsky)
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 08:54:53 +0200 (IST)
Robert Crowe wrote:
In message <199402261422.AA03742 () tavor openu ac il>, Rafi Sadowsky writes:Jeroen Scheerder wrote:....now on BSD/386 for example /usr/bin/mail is the ucb one - which is probably where the hole comes from ?I just tested it under NetBSD, which I would suppose also has the ucb one, and the tilda escapes are *not* processed for non-interactive mailings. I feel this is also very likely the case with BSD/386 (I can't test that until next week sometime).
superficial testing indicates you're right however Henry Spencer did say that on some systems it does happen I'm glad I don't have any (I think :-) Rafi
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- Re: Security problem in C news and INN Perry E. Metzger (Feb 24)
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- Re: Security problem in C news and INN Perry E. Metzger (Feb 24)
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- Re: Security problem in C news and INN Henry Spencer (Feb 25)
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