[6056] in bugtraq
Re: imapd/ipop3d coredump in slackware 3.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter van Dijk)
Sun Feb 1 21:15:24 1998
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 02:51:26 +0100
Reply-To: Peter van Dijk <peter@ATTIC.VUURWERK.NL>
From: Peter van Dijk <peter@ATTIC.VUURWERK.NL>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980202000721.11156C-100000@zopie.attic.vuurwerk.nl>
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> [attic bug report nr. 1]
>
> While fooling around a little with NIS/YP (didn't get it completely
> working...) I ran into a bug in the imapd and ipop3d that come with
> slackware 3.4 (if you install the pine package).
> Earlier slackware versions will problably NOT suffer from this bug,
> because they did not include shadowing.
>
> When fed an unknown username, imapd and ipop3d will dump core:
[snip]
I just got an answer from Patrick Volkerding [maintainer of Slackware].
He'll take the patch out and put a repaired package on the ftp site.
Peter.
