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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: smail 3.0 security hole?
Message-ID: <1990Jun8.210309.13542@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 8 Jun 90 21:03:09 GMT
Reply-To: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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Not sure if this got out the first time.....


	I just had a root breaking here on chinet.  I am running
	ISC 2.0.2 with smail 3.0.  smail 3.0 is setuid root.
	I believe he broke in via smail.
	This is a piece of mail that got bounced to postmaster here.
	Any ideas?


From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Jun  8 13:32:55 1990
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Status: RO

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 "|/tmp/x" ... failed: transport pipe: child returned status EX_1 (1)
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From: gandalf (alien life form)
To: root

hehe

	-randy

	randy@chinet.chi.il.us
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Randy Suess
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