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Subject: Re: [Fwd: BoS: Vulnerability in Majordomo]
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:52:35 -0500 (CDT)
To: rra @ stanford . edu (Russ Allbery)
Cc: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <m3d8n03lv7.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU> from "Russ Allbery" at Aug 26, 97 10:17:00 am

[ Russ Allbery writes: ]
> 
> Okay.  In that case, I think the most obvious patch to the current
> behavior is:
> 
[deleted]
> 
> This has the advantage of being nigh-minimal impact and should, as far as
> I can tell, resolve the security problem entirely.

But still diddles the return address, possibly invalidating a perfectly
valid address. Be patient. I'm testing a very simple fix that I think
has no impact except to remove the vulnerability.

-- 
 Dave Wolfe


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