[Exim] Like in the good old times ... (sendmail exploit)

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Author: Nico Erfurth
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To: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: [Exim] Like in the good old times ... (sendmail exploit)
Another day, another sendmail exploit.

Today a new sendmail version was released, which fixed another bug in the
address-parsing.

To prevent your customers, from this bug, until they fix their versions
use the follwing entry in your data-acl.

deny message = Another day, another sendmail bug
     condition = ${if match{$message_headers}{\xff}{1}{0}}


This will disallow \xff in the headers of the message.
Maybe verify = header_syntax will also catch this, but it doesn't check
all the headers that could be used to exploit sendmail.


Nico