Bugtraq: (debian) Re: suidperl; more

[Alexander Oelzant <aoe () OEH NET>]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:07:57PM +0200, Sebastian wrote:
> So far, there are more security-releated apps which use /bin/mail
> for logging
Debian again proves to be highly security-aware: it does not even
have a /bin/mail and is thus safe from this very attack. Of course,
using /usr/bin/mail works fine, so any applications where /bin/mail
was not hardcoded would be affected.

hth
   Alexander

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