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1998 Jun 25
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security hole in mailx
...access to any
Solaris, so I''m not 100% sure. Redhat Linux mailx has the bug,
but as they don''t install it setgid mail there''s no direct
danger.
About the bug: it is in "fio.c", in the "xname" variable of the
"expand" function:
char xname[PATHSIZE];
[...]
sprintf(xname, "%s%s", homedir, name + 1);
Two attachments are included in this message:
-A patch against mailx-8.1.1 that solves the problem. There
are a lot of buffer overflows in the sources of mailx,
although only the one I mention seems to be exploitable. The
patch i...