mailing to uudecode
Tom Christiansen
tchrist at convex.COM
Tue May 14 20:10:27 AEST 1991
>From the keyboard of Gord_Wait at mindlink.bc.ca (Gord Wait):
:On sun sparc os 4.1.1 there is a default mail alias called uudecode. Is this a
:useful thing? I can't get it to do anything but spit out error messages when I
:mail it uuencoded files. Any clues appreciated.
It is usually more useful to a cracker than to you, as it usually allows
him to overwrite daemon-writable files anywhere on the system, or to
create setuid-daemon programs. Depending on your sendmail, it may
even be worse than this.
I suggest you expurgate it from your system in all due haste.
--tom
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