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BoS: Majordomo 1.94.4 released -- SECURITY FIXES

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Sat Oct 11 22:14:57 1997

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       Message-Id:  <199710021424.QAA28753@slurp.neu.sgi.com>
       To:  majordomo-announce@GreatCircle.COM, majordomo-workers@GreatCircle.COM
       Subject:  Majordomo 1.94.4 released -- SECURITY FIXES
       Date:  Thu, 02 Oct 1997 16:24:12 +0200
       From:  Chan Wilson

                                  Majordomo 1.94.4
                                --------------------

                         THIS IS A SECURITY BUGFIX RELEASE!

       This has the advertise eval and wrapper security patch, everything
       that was in the patch archive, plus a few other snippets - see below.

       In the usual places:

               ftp://ftp.greatcircle.com/pub/majordomo/majordomo.tgz

               ftp://ftp-europe.sgi.com/other/majordomo/majordomo.tgz

               ftp://ftp.sgi.com/other/majordomo/majordomo.tgz

       Patches can be found in the 1.94.4 subdirectory.

       --Chan

[ snip ]

       wrapper.c       1.8:1.7
               revision 1.8
               date: 1997/08/27 15:01:12;  author: cwilson;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -4
               o  Fixes security hole with ENV overrun by limiting env size.
               ----------------------------

        Chan Wilson                     International      +41-32-843-3760
        Silicon Graphics, SA.           U.S.      1-888-744-8638 x476-3760
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           "Network Analyst"  &&  Irix SA Guru  &&  Gravitational Engineer

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