Re: serious Qpopper 3.0 vulnerability

From: Josh Higham (jhighamat_private)
Date: Tue Nov 30 1999 - 09:54:03 PST

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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Mixter <mixterat_private>
    To: BUGTRAQat_private <BUGTRAQat_private>
    Date: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 10:23 AM
    Subject: serious Qpopper 3.0 vulnerability
    
    
    >PS: The installation file suggests to run qpopper without tcpd, e.g.:
    >pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/lib/qpopper qpopper -s
    >I would NOT suggest doing it that way. Use:
    >pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd qpopper -s
    >instead. At least for me it works behind a tcp wrapper, and that way,
    >you can use access control and every connection _attempt_ gets logged.
    
    
    Does anyone know why qpopper suggests running without wrappers?  Does it
    lose some functionality that way, or is it deadwood from a previous
    incompatibility between tcpd and qpopper?  It seems pretty significant to
    suggest not using wrappers, and I would expect a significant reason for
    that, but I don't recall seeing anything about it in the docs.
    
    Josh Higham
    



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