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Date:      Thu, 6 May 2004 12:28:36 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/vuxml vuln.xml
Message-ID:  <20040506172836.GA1372@madman.celabo.org>
In-Reply-To: <409A70B6.20000@fillmore-labs.com>
References:  <200405061543.i46FhrL2015423@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040506160133.GB790@madman.celabo.org> <409A658A.30206@fillmore-labs.com> <20040506162842.GA1129@madman.celabo.org> <409A70B6.20000@fillmore-labs.com>

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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:07:02PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Neither do I know George. The advisory I refer to is
>  <http://www.guninski.com/exim1.html>;

Typo on my part.  I meant Georgi, as in Georgi Guninski.

> I verified that what is called `bug2' affects FreeBSD when
> `verify = header_syntax' is used (which is not done in the default
> configuration file), `bug1' is mentioned as effecting exim 3.35, which
> is a stupid Debianism. Exim 3.36 is available since April 2002 
>  <http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-announce/2002q2/000057.html>;
> in FreeBSD as mail/exim-old, is FORBIDDEN since September 2003 and
> has been removed from the ports tree March 2004. `verify = header_syntax'
> used to be `headers_check_syntax' in Exim 3.x, so obviously Georgi
> Guninski and the George writing the CVE list entries are Debian users.

Cool, thanks for confirming!
Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org



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