sendmail worm fix (2)

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From: Jim Crammond
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1988 17:26

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The previous fix prevents remote users mailing getting a local shell,
however it is still possible for a local user to run sendmail by hand
and exploit the hole (and get a non-root shell).
Those who are worried by this may wish to take advantage of the following:

   From: Andrew Findlay <Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk>
   Date: Mon, 7 Nov 88 16:57:35 BST

   It may be worth making a safe Sun binary available by anon Blue-Book
   FTP and putting a uuencoded version in an info-server too.

   I have put two binaries in the 'guest' file area on uk.ac.brunel.me:
   (Username guest, any passwd)

   <FTP>sun-sendmail-IDA
   <FTP>pyr-sendmail-IDA

   Both are IDA-sendmail, compiled without DEBUG or WIZ. The Sun version
   was compiled under SunOs 3.3 and also runs under 4.0. Vanilla versions
   would be more useful to most people though.

   Andrew

-Jim.

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Subject: sendmail worm fix (2)
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