--- Gossi The Dog <gossiat_private> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've discovered slightly odd behavour from /usr/bin/Mail on my Redhat 6.2 > box. I don't really have the time to fiddle with this, so I'm hoping you > guys can provide feedback as to if this is reproducable on other systems. > > Lets start with version numbers; > > [gossi@owned gossi]$ strings /bin/mail | grep version > version > Mail version %s. Type ? for help. > $OpenBSD: version.c,v 1.4 1996/06/08 19:48:46 christos Exp $ ... > If Mail encounters hex character x00 (aka ^@ as vi shows it), it seg > faults and dumps it core. On Slackware and (I believe) Debian, Mail is > suid root. On Redhat it isn't. Other distros might have the suid bit > set. > > There are two ways to easily reproduce this; > ... It worked without any problems (no seg fault) on slack 7.1... fintler@bleedgreen:~$ strings /bin/mail | grep version version Mail version %s. Type ? for help. $OpenBSD: version.c,v 1.4 1996/06/08 19:48:46 christos Exp $ .gnu.version .gnu.version_r fintler@bleedgreen:~$ probally specific to your localhost or rh.... -fintler (fintlerat_private)
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