Re: Security problem in C news and INN

[rafi () tavor openu ac il (Rafi Sadowsky)]

Robert Crowe wrote:
> In message <199402261422.AA03742 () tavor openu ac il>, Rafi Sadowsky writes:
> > Jeroen Scheerder wrote:
> ....
> > now on BSD/386 for example /usr/bin/mail is the ucb one - which is probably
> > where the hole comes from ?
>
> I just tested it under NetBSD, which I would suppose also has the ucb one,
> and the tilda escapes are *not* processed for non-interactive mailings.  I
> feel this is also very likely the case with BSD/386 (I can't test that until
> next week sometime).
superficial testing indicates you're right

however Henry Spencer did say that on some systems it does happen
I'm glad I don't have any (I think :-)

        Rafi