RE: List managers

[Gregory Wood]

Title: RE: List managers

You got me. I found the orginal message and here it is:

 

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Debian Security Advisory                             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
June  3, 2000
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Package        : majordomo
Problem type   : local exploit
Debian-specific: no

 

The majordomo package as shipped in the non-free section accompanying
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1/slink allows any local user to trick majordomo into
executing arbitrary code or to create or write files as the majordomo user
anywhere on the filesystem.

 

This is a documented issue and the advised work around it to either have
no untrusted users on a system running majordomo or to use a setuid
wrapper that the MTA delivery agent can run.
suboptimal solution.

 

We feel that those options are not a good solution, but unfortunately the
majordomo license does not allow us to fix these problems and distribute a
fixed version. As a result we have decided to remove majordomo from our
archives.

 

If you are using majordomo we recommend that you replace it with one
of the many other mailing-list tools available such as fml, mailman
or smartlist.

 

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On 7/5/00 at 6:24 PM Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:

humm, why is it on non-free then?.

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De: Gregory Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Enviado el: miércoles 5 de julio de 2000 16:13
Para: Javier Castillo; Debian-Isp
Asunto: Re: List managers

I believe majordomo was taken out due to a security hole. -- It isn't open source.

Gregory Wood

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On 7/5/00 at 10:47 AM Javier Castillo wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>       I see that majordomo is non-free :(( ,
>
>       which list manager do you recommend me?, easy to admin, fast, and of
>course, gnu :))
>
>
>       Saludos.
>
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