Re: Vulnerability in metamail

[klmitch () MIT EDU (Kev)]

> Perhaps the 644 should be something like `expr 666 - \`umask\``.

Well, that directly won't work.  Among other things, that's an octal
number:

[starkiller]-[~]-> expr 666 - `umask`
589
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