Re: [RHSA-1999:030-01] Buffer overflow in cron daemon

From: Kurt Seifried (listuserat_private)
Date: Sun Aug 29 1999 - 23:18:02 PDT

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    > > Why not just have sendmail run as the user who owns the crontab?
    > > I see no credible reason to run it as root.  This is fairly
    > > simple as do_command and cron_popen are only used to send mail
    > > anyway.
    >
    > That should be "cron_popen is only used to send mail anyway".
    >
    >  - todd
    
    Silly question but does this crontab bug affect those of us running
    qmail or postfix? I would assume yes but don't have the time to test
    it. If anyone does/has I would be interested to hear.
    
    - -Kurt Seifried
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