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Bugtraq archives for 4th quarter (Oct-Dec) 1995: Re: Sendmail 8.7, 8.7.1

Re: Sendmail 8.7, 8.7.1

Andrew Cameron (andrewandy.alt.za)
Tue, 10 Oct 1995 21:17:33 +0200 

On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Casper Dik wrote:

> >Who knows what the root-shell-giving security hole is in Sendmail 8.6.12
> >that was incompletely patched in 8.7, and (supposedly) finally patched
> >in 8.7.1?
>
> It's just syslog() overruning the stack again.  There's also another problem
> which causes the datas segment to be overrun, but that's not as easy
> to abuse (if at all).
>
> Casper
>
When is someone going to make the code available to verify the Syslog bug
for Sunos 4.1.3

I have a person at work who refuses to apply the patches to his Sunos
System until we can prove to him that a bug exists.

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