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  • From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Another sendmail hole
  • Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:40:52 -0800

On Saturday 29 March 2003 03:23 pm, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I just looked at Bugtraq and there's a new sendmail out. Michal Zalewski
> found a hole in sendmail in which a character 0xff in the right place, sent
> to a sendmail compiled with signed characters, can be misinterpreted as a
> flag that indicates no character. The new version is 8.12.9.
>
> phma


How do people find these things? Was Michal that bored that he felt like
sending a sendmail server stray characters to see what happens?


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