[5457] in bugtraq
Re: Vulnerability in metamail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Sat Oct 25 22:02:28 1997
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 20:46:58 EDT
Reply-To: klmitch@MIT.EDU
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
X-To: der Mouse <mouse@RODENTS.MONTREAL.QC.CA>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
> Perhaps the 644 should be something like `expr 666 - \`umask\``.
Well, that directly won't work. Among other things, that's an octal
number:
[starkiller]-[~]-> expr 666 - `umask`
589
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