Re: Mail bug

From: Samu (samuat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 00:02:57 PDT

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    On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:40:48PM +0100, Gossi The Dog wrote:
    > So, roughly, the questions I can see are;
    > 
    > a) can you reproduce it
    > b) what OS/distro
    > c) is Mail suid root?
    > d) why is it doing this, and is it exploitable?
    > 
    hi,
    i've tested on a debian woody (unstable)
    
    tonon@cthugha[~/mail]$wget http://owned.lab6.com/~gossi/crashmail.txt
    --08:59:15--  http://owned.lab6.com/%7Egossi/crashmail.txt
               => `crashmail.txt'
    Length: 5,378 [text/plain]
    
        0K -> .....                                                  [100%]
    
    08:59:15 (5.13 MB/s) - `crashmail.txt' saved [5378/5378]
    
    tonon@cthugha[~/mail]$mv crashmail.txt inbox     
    tonon@cthugha[~/mail]$mail
    Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001.  Type ? for help.
    "/home/asylum/tonon/mail/inbox": 1 message 1 new
    >N  1 sup-infoat_private  Sat Jun  2 04:52  161/5376  Security Update:
    >[CSSA-2001-019.0] Webmin root account leak
    
    
    so it doesn't segfault 
    
    it was tested on a debian woody i386
    mail isn't suid root
    
    ls -l `which mail`
    -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        70268 Apr  4 00:44 /usr/bin/mail
    
    
    hope this help u.
    
    regards
    Samuele 
    
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