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Re: Remote exploit in sendmail 8.8.0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D. J. Bernstein)
Thu Oct 17 21:24:41 1996

Date: 	Fri, 18 Oct 1996 00:20:08 -0000
Reply-To: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu>
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>

> That, or get 8.8.1 which is out now. What service!

Is it just my imagination, or does sendmail.8.8.1.patch replace

   if (mime_fromqp((u_char *) buf, &obp, 0, MAXLINE) == 0)

with

   if (mime_fromqp((u_char *) buf, &obp, 0, &obp[MAXLINE] - obp) == 0)

This is not exactly what I'd call a fix.

---Dan

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