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Re: Vulnerability in Elm-ME+


From: Kari.Hurtta () ozone FMI FI (Kari E. Hurtta)
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 22:16:03 +0300


John Goerzen:
Hello,

I have confirmed that the recently-reported vulnerability in Elm is also
present in Elm-ME+ and thus also in Debian GNU/Linux version 1.2, prerelease
version 1.3, and development tree "unstable".

OK. I made fix to  Elm 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)

Posted to alt.sources and comp.mail.elm with
Message-ID: <elm2.4ME+/PL32/1 () ozone FMI FI>
Archive-name: elm2.4ME+/PL32

Available on    ftp.ozone.FMI.FI
                via anonymous ftp
                directory KEH/
                files elm-2.4ME+32.tar.gz
                and elm-2.4ME+PL32.patch.gz

Also available with
        <URL: http://www.ozone.FMI.FI/KEH/elm-2.4ME+32.tar.gz >
and     <URL: http://www.ozone.FMI.FI/KEH/elm-2.4ME+PL32.patch.gz >
via WWW.

/ Kari Hurtta

--------------------------------------------------------------
Version Elm2.4ME+ PL0 (25) is based to version Elm2.4 PL24 ME8b+.
Version Elm2.4 PL24 ME8b+ is based to version Elm2.4 PL24 ME8b.

Version Elm2.4 PL24 ME8b is done by Michael Elkins <elkins.aero.org>.
For details, look file ANNOUNCE.ME

[ Equivalent of MIME code in Elm2.4 PL24 ME8b is posted to
  Elm Development Cordinator ]

Version Elm2.4 PL24 ME8b is based to version Elm2.4 PL24.
Version Elm2.4ME+ PLx (25) includes patch of version Elm2.4 PL25.

Changes of Elm2.4ME+ PL32 (25) compared to Elm2.4ME+ PL31 (25)
---------------------------------------------------------------

        - Incorrect Content-length: -header was causing corruption
          of folders.
          From: Guy Harris <guy () netapp com>

        - argv_from_to was not handled ',' in comments correctly.
          Detected from report of Gary Casterline
                <casterln () nature Berkeley EDU>
        > Use rfc822_toklen instead of len_next_part

        - SECURITY: strcpy -> strfcpy changes of Elm2.4ME+ PL29 (25)
          was not done for curses.c in this source tree.
          Bug report on List <BUGTRAQ () NETSPACE ORG>.
          From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen () happy cs twsu edu>

        - Some changes on curses.c (bl -- bell)

        - Change output of option -v

        - "If you use 'answer -u', then every user name is truncated to
           three letters." ... "Change line 232 to: " ...
          From: Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr () jpr com>
          [ Suggested fix was incorrect. ]

        - "Configure always has had a problem on Linux systems,
           extracting names in a usuable format (from /usr/lib/libc.so).
           The following small change fixes this."
          From: Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma () xs4all nl>

        - "In Solaris enviroment NIS+ is now used instead of Yellow
           Pages so I have modified Configure to reflect this and
           allow to use niscat in the same fashion as ypcat was."
          From: Jerzy Sobczyk <J.Sobczyk () ia pw edu pl>

        - Compilation of filter (actions.c) fail.
          Reported by: Arnout Boer <arnoutb () xs4all nl>

        - Typo mismatch in lib/strftime.c
          From: Yuval Shamir <yuvals () iil intel com>
        - [wordwrap.c, bultin editor]
          "Wordwrap and delete at the
           beginning of the line does not work in PL31. Fix is below."
          From: "Zoltan T. Hidvegi" <hzoli () VNET IBM COM>
          [ I didn't used supplied patch. ]

        - [builtin editor] There was 'sizeof buffer' instead of
          'buffer_size' in get_with_expansion()

        - Add same fflush -fix to remail.c which is in mailmsg2.c



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