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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:07:33 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: procmail workaround for MIME filename overflow exploit
Message-ID:  <199807300007.SAA18937@lariat.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980729145556.C16073@notabene.zer0.org>
References:  <199807291946.NAA14449@lariat.lariat.org> <199807291946.NAA14449@lariat.lariat.org>

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At 02:55 PM 7/29/98 -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote:

>Brett,
>
>John's recipe has the same problem as Andrew McNaughton's proposed
>solution -- it invokes perl.

As far as I can see, it invokes Perl only if a potential exploit
is recognized.... Hopefully, a rare event.

John's original recipe DOES have the problem that it doesn't handle
varying amounts of whitespace between items, or tabs rather than
spaces as whitespace. I've mentioned this to John and I expect he'll
update his recipes (he has several relating to MIME).

--Brett


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