Re: mailutils-3.8 released [stable]

Jordi Mallach <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mailutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
El dj. 07 de 11 de 2019 a les 09:14 +0200, en/na Sergey Poznyakoff va
escriure:
> Hi Jordi,
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, Debian installs maidag without setuid bit,
> thus no fix is needed.
> 
> If installed setuid, make sure it is executable only for the user MTA
> is running as, e.g.
> 
>   $ ls -l /usr/sbin/maidag
>   -rwsr-xr-- 1 root daemon 67456 Dec 25  2016 /usr/sbin/maidag

Yes, but still, if a local admin decides to override that and use the
suid bit, it'd be a lot better if maidag has the fix.

FWIW, I plan to ship mda with the default suid bit.

Jordi
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