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Re: [RHSA-1999:030-01] Buffer overflow in cron daemon

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Morrison)
Mon Aug 30 05:50:33 1999

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> 7. Problem description:
>
> Also, it was possible to use specially formatted 'MAILTO'
> environment variables to send commands to sendmail.

FWIW, this was fixed in FreeBSD in early 1995 by Andrey Chernov
in response to a similar hole in atrun(8) hole that I reported.

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