[11594] in bugtraq
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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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 12:42:05 +0200
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From: Adam Morrison <adam@XPERT.COM>
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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.