SECURITY HOLE: cnfsstat

Mike Bird mgb at yosemite.net
Wed Aug 25 07:23:58 UTC 1999


INN 2.2

cnfsstat at line 348 runs grephistory in backquotes.  The $msgid is not
checked for malicious characters.

cnfsstat tripped over this in a message-ID which contained a backquote in
the (bogus) hostname.  I don't know which other malicious characters can
make it this far.

I'm gonna have to be more careful about running cnfsstat when I'm root!

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