[Mimedefang] Virus's slipping though with bad MIME headers.

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Apr 24 18:38:46 EDT 2002


On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Ian Mitchell wrote:

> Here's the raw message that let a quarintine file through... I
> removed the virus code that crept in (don't need that.)

> --CS8z6720Yf31A62i41doWXAgp1
> Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
>         name=@ 21.pif

Sigh.  I'll have a look; I think I know a way to handle this.  But any
decently-written MUA will interpret the name as "@" (or indeed, as blank.)
Any MUA which interprets the name as "@ 21.pif" is broken.

Regards,

David.




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