Re: [EXIM] Truncating MIME headers?

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Author: Alan Thew
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To: Evan Leibovitch
CC: Exim Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Truncating MIME headers?
We would be interested...

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Alan Thew                                       alan.thew@???
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

>
>There has been some news lately about the fact that certain folk are
>exploiting a bug in some email clients. This bug compromises security if
>the MIME headers are long enough to overflow the buffers alloted to them.
>
>The Sendmail folk have produced a patch that allows the admin to truncate
>MIME headers in the MTA, before they can do such damage:
>http://www.sendmail.com/sendmail.8.9.1a.html
>
>Is such a facility worth considering in Exim?
>
>- Evan
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