[Mimedefang] THere' seems to be a new way to slip binaries through MD

G. Roderick Singleton gerry at pathtech.org
Tue Dec 9 14:58:52 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 14:28, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 10:15, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > --On Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:03 AM -0500 "G. Roderick Singleton" 
> > <gerry at pathtech.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I received two message today with the following:
> > >
> > > 	Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
> > >
> > > In both cases the message crashed evolution
> > >
> > > Before I go blindly adding this to my MD rule set, does anyone know if
> > > this is common enough to produce false positive?
> > 
> > What version of Evo? I haven't used that in some time but I recall an early 
> > bug like that. Someone sent a message that triggered it to the Evo 
> > discussion list, so it got fixed pretty quick. ;)
> 
> Evolution 1.4.x. Still my concern is that this format=flowed is in
> common use but until these messages got through I had no idea that this
> existed.

Addendum to my last message. The version I was using was 1.4.3. So I
looked and low and behold there's 1.4.5 and it behaves well. 

I am inclined to arbitrarly block this content-type in MD.  Any
comments?

-- 
Gerry Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
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