Re: serious Qpopper 3.0 vulnerability

[jhigham () BIGSKY NET (Josh Higham)]

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From: Mixter <mixter () NEWYORKOFFICE COM>
To: BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM <BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Date: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 10:23 AM
Subject: serious Qpopper 3.0 vulnerability

> PS: The installation file suggests to run qpopper without tcpd, e.g.:
> pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/lib/qpopper qpopper -s
> I would NOT suggest doing it that way. Use:
> pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd qpopper -s
> instead. At least for me it works behind a tcp wrapper, and that way,
> you can use access control and every connection _attempt_ gets logged.

Does anyone know why qpopper suggests running without wrappers?  Does it
lose some functionality that way, or is it deadwood from a previous
incompatibility between tcpd and qpopper?  It seems pretty significant to
suggest not using wrappers, and I would expect a significant reason for
that, but I don't recall seeing anything about it in the docs.

Josh Higham