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Re: Bug in majordomo

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Xymoron)
Tue Jun 24 11:22:50 1997

Date: 	Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:36:47 -0500
Reply-To: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@WASTE.ORG>
From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@WASTE.ORG>
X-To:         The Spectre <spectre@NAC.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <18403419602069@nac.net>

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, The Spectre wrote:

> majordomo 1.94.1 has a bug in that if you disable the "lists" command, you
> can still get a list of all the mailing lists on the server by sending
> "unsubscribe * <email address>" and it will just give you a bunch of
> "failed to unsubscribe from ..." once for each list on the server.

I posted a patch for this bug on md-workers back in ummm.. February?
It's fixed in 1.94.3. Everyone should be aware of similar dangers with the
'which' command as well.

> Not sure what platform(s) this occurs on, the server this happened on was
> 2600.com.

Works on all platforms - it's the same Perl script.

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