Re: CERT Advisory CA-95:02.binmail.vulnerabilities

[proff () suburbia apana org au (Julian Assange)]

> The CERT Coordination Center thanks Eric Allman, Wolfgang Ley, Karl
> Strickland, Wietse Venema, and Neil Woods for their contributions to
> mail.local.

Last billing there Neil, though I note its in alphabetical order. It
does seem a little thick headed that cert, in its wisdom, did not simply
refer people to several 8lgm advisories already on the subject. As for the
"mail.local" not been perfect - what are they advising? the installation of
something less that perfect as far as root-bugs are concerned? 

        "But mom, I'm only a little bit pregnant"

> From my examinations of mail.local, its fine unless you can write to the mail
spool directory. If you can, then its raceable.

Proff