Cornelius Krasel writes:
>
> "filter" is inherently unsafe. A bug has been described in 1995 which
> allows reading email of anybody on the system. The description can be
> found in the BugTraq archives, I believe. I include the full message
> below. While it was written in 1995, it still works with the filter
> version of Elm 2.4ME+ PL35 (25) which is from 1997. (I don't know
> whether there are any more recent elm versions.)
>
Elm 2.4ME+ PL35 is not the official version of elm. The official
version of elm is 2.5.2 and does not include the filter program.
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Bill Pemberton (Elm Coordinator) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ITC/Unix Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Virginia
