Re: [exim] RFC 5532 enforcement

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Auteur: Phil Pennock
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Aan: Todd Lyons
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [exim] RFC 5532 enforcement
On 2010-10-13 at 08:13 -0700, Todd Lyons wrote:
> In the IETF-DKIM mailing list, it came to light that an attacker could
> send a properly signed email with the attacker's domain, but prepend a
> second From: header that says it's from someone@???, and MUA's
> will show the second From. It doesn't screw up the signature because
> the original From: is what is used to verify the signature. At issue
> is that RFC 5532 requires that an email have only one From: header.


Thanks.

http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1030 filed, you shouldn't have had
to do this.

-Phil