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Morris Worm sendmail Debug Mode Shell Escape

Disclosed
Nov 2, 1988

Description

This module exploits sendmail's well-known historical debug mode to
escape to a shell and execute commands in the SMTP RCPT TO command.

This vulnerability was exploited by the Morris worm in 1988-11-02.
Cliff Stoll reports on the worm in the epilogue of The Cuckoo's Egg.

Currently, only cmd/unix/reverse and cmd/unix/generic are supported.
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