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Re: EMERGENCY: new remote root exploit in UW imapd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kragen)
Thu Jul 23 12:06:46 1998

Date: 	Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:02:27 -0400
Reply-To: Kragen <kragen@POBOX.COM>
From: Kragen <kragen@POBOX.COM>
X-To:         IBS / Andre Oppermann <andre@PIPELINE.CH>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <35B51A28.824FBAB4@pipeline.ch>

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, IBS / Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Kragen wrote:
> > qmail uses no standard C library functions, other than syscalls, if I
> > remember correctly.
>
> That is true, but he hasn't documented it very well, in fact you have
> to look through and follow the function to see what is really does.

The first version of qmail I looked at had no documentation for the
stralloc stuff, so I wrote some
(<URL:http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/stralloc.html>) and published it.
More recent versions appear to have a man page for the stralloc
functions, obsoleting my web page.

Kragen

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