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Date:      Sun, 2 Jan 2000 23:13:55 +0100 (MET)
From:      Ole Pahl <op@pahl.net>
To:        Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin@FreeBSD.lublin.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject:   RE: Bug in recent versions of Vixie cron
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.05.10001022307200.12566-100000@muschel.global-phun.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000102215935.venglin@FreeBSD.lublin.pl>

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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote:

> > This problem seems to be present in current versions of Vixie cron, e.g.
> > those used in operating systems like FreeBSD 3.4-RC as well as certain
> > Linux distributions such as SuSE Linux 6.2.

> FreeBSD is and was NOT vulnerable to this problem.

The person who tried to reproduce this problem on his FreeBSD machine just
confirmed that he could not pass arbitrary commands to Sendmail using the
MAILTO environment variable. However, Sendmail is still executed as root -
that condition can't be exploited due to proper argument checking, though.

For further replies, please make sure to remove BugTraq from the CC list in
order to keep Aleph1 from being bothered - I think any further discussion
on this issue is not relevant for BugTraq.

Regards,
  Ole Pahl

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