This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: sendmail bug
Article: 7829 of alt.hackers From: ba044@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au (Silvio Cesare) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: sendmail bug Date: 17 May 1995 12:02:09 GMT Organization: Central Queensland Public Access Network (CQ-PAN) Lines: 20 Approved: sea shells, sea shells, by the sea shore... Message-ID: 3pcok1$1n2@janus.cqu.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: bertha.cqu.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
The Satch Miester (kearneyd@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE) wrote: : can someone please describe to me how the sendmail bug works??? I want to : know what it actually does, so I can stop it. you want to stop it? isnt that what the latest version is meant to do ;-) umm.. have you looked in the cert advisories. i remeber reading briefly what the hole was or rather, what section of code was at fault.. hmm.. obhack i spose.. hmm.. obcraphack: forgetting my cmos password on my pc.. so.. go into dos and corrupt cmos using debug and then reboot straight in cmos.. (hmm.. then changing the default parameters by memory.. err guessing, my memory isnt that good).. no hack too small? well, thats pushing it i spose.. -- Silvio
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