Re: An exploit for linux mh ver 6.8.4-5 ( update ) ...

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@CISTRON.NL)
Sat, 21 Mar 1998 22:55:31 +0100

In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980321161207.2339A-100000@mercury.redhat.com>,
Erik Troan <ewt@REDHAT.COM> wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Catalin Mitrofan wrote:
>
>> host (user):~>. .mh_profile
>> bash#
>
>Thanks for finding this -- I just put a fix on ftp.redhat.com.

I've tried this with the Debian mh_6.8.4-17 package, and nothing happens.
(It prints a lot of junk and then exits). Also, mh_check is installed setgid
mail, not setuid root.

Mike.

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