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procmail heap overflow
From: flatline <flatline () blackhat nl>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 02:38:08 +0200
hi, i found a heap overflow in procmail (up until latest) some time ago. flatline@intra:/usr/bin$ ls -la procmail -rwsr-xr-x 1 root mail 64344 Jun 3 2001 procmail* flatline@intra:/usr/bin$ ./procmail `perl -e '{print "A"x10240}'`=A procmail: Exceeded LINEBUF Segmentation fault flatline@intra:/usr/bin$at first it seemed to properly drop privs before segging, but not too long ago i managed to make it crash while it still had euid 0. segfaults have been seen on red hat/slackware linux and bsd variants. successful exploitation has not been verified.
/ flatlinegreets fly out to fc, zeno, xistence, thewolf, #gold, #!xpc and everyone who felt left out.
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