Vulnerability Development: Re: Mail bug

["fejed" <fejed () optushome com au>]

bad permissions on /var/spool/mail/username?
----- Original Message -----
From: Devdas Bhagat <devdas () worldgatein net>
To: Gossi The Dog <gossi () owned lab6 com>; <vuln-dev () securityfocus com>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: Mail bug


On Sun, 03 Jun 2001, Gossi The Dog spewed into the ether:
> I've discovered slightly odd behavour from /usr/bin/Mail on my Redhat 6.2
> box.  I don't really have the time to fiddle with this, so I'm hoping you
> guys can provide feedback as to if this is reproducable on other systems.
Is this the same bug that was discussed on Bugtraq sometime in
August 2000?
This looks familiar, exploitable and fixed.

Devdas Bhagat
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