On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:22:41PM -0400, Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:01:59PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > > > Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > How is this a remote exploit? > > > > If I know somebody uses most as a pager for mail, I can send him or > > her a specially-formatted message which will do various nasty things > > to his or her account. > Aside from the fact that it's a pretty big IF; I'm not aware of too many > mail clients that use pagers. mutt uses vi, pine uses pico, X based MUAs > certainly don't use most.. perhaps mail(x) or something similar use > it, but that's not all too common. Certainly not enough, IMO, to classify > this as a remote exploit. Mutt uses a builtin pager by default. An external pager can be specified using the 'pager' variable in the muttrc file. You're thinking of the editor. -- Tim van Erven [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
