Re: [Exim] Security when using quote_mysql?

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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To: Jakob Hirsch
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] Security when using quote_mysql?
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Jakob Hirsch wrote:

> According to exim-spec 6.12 backslashes should be escaped when using
> quote_mysql. We use something like
> where local_part="${quote_mysql:${extract {1}{@%!}{$1}}}"


What exactly is the setting you use?

> Am I using quote_mysql in the wrong way or is this really a security
> issue?


I can't really tell without more data. There may be some problem with
the ordering of what is done.

> And even worse, I really don't think that such a verbose error message
> should be sent back in the SMTP dialogue:


It should be different in Exim 4.

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