Re: Multiply bugs in MH-6.8.3 (Mail Handler program)

[shok () COBRA ONLINEX NET (Matt Conover)]

No actually you're wrong...there are two different overflows...this is why
I said there are MULTIPLE bugs...I just only mentioned one..because that
one is used no checkmail() and it will be called but there is an
exception:
static int  checkmail (user, home, datesw, notifysw, personal)
register char *user, *home;
int     datesw,
        notifysw,
        personal;
{
    int     mf,
            status;
    char    buffer[BUFSIZ];
    struct stat st;

    (void) sprintf (buffer, "%s/%s",
            mmdfldir[0] ? mmdfldir : home,
            mmdflfil[0] ? mmdflfil : user);

The exception is if mmdfldir[0] is true..otherwise this WILL get called
and this is directly in msgchk.c checkmail() NOT in ruserpass.c that is a
completely different overflow

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997 nolander () NOLANDER PP SE wrote:

> > Okay there is an overflow in MH-6.8.3, which is suid, which I THINK (not
> > sure), is installed, at least in Redhat 4.1+,  by default (I think this
>
> >   char *hdir, buf[BUFSIZ], *tmp;
> >                                              purposes if you try to
> > overflow this...just use a size
> >                                              of 9999, just to see if it
> > segfaults.
> >
> >         hdir = getenv("HOME");
> >         if (hdir == NULL)
> >                 hdir = ".";
> >         (void) sprintf(buf, "%s/.netrc", hdir);
>
> All this was in ruserpass.c...
>
> ruserpass(host,&user,&pass); is found in msgchk.c, in checkremote() or
> something like that... meaning that the host aren't vulnerable if not
> configured.. this is from a system where mh was installed w/o being
> configured (default)
>
> [nolander@sangis nolander]$ /usr/bin/mh/msgchk -host muroff
> msgchk: no servers available
>
> check mana mh-tailor for more info about this server stuff :)