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Re: Long attachment filename exploits: a procmail filter

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Hardin)
Thu Jul 30 14:06:59 1998

Date: 	Wed, 29 Jul 1998 20:42:46 -0700
Reply-To: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@WOLFENET.COM>
From: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@WOLFENET.COM>
X-To:         Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <199807300237.UAA21468@lariat.lariat.org>

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Brett Glass wrote:

> Finally, there are other possible exploits, like a very long content
> type, that might also lead to buffer oveflows in mail clients. These
> should be checked too.

Okay, very long Content-Type headers are now sanitized as well.

Grab the latest from http://www.wolfenet.com/~jhardin/html-trap.procmail
and take a look.

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