Re: [exim] exim-4.96rc0 Tainted arg

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Author: Odhiambo Washington
Date:  
To: Jeremy Harris
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim-4.96rc0 Tainted arg
On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 12:46 PM Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <
exim-users@???> wrote:

> On 01/05/2022 09:55, Odhiambo Washington via Exim-users wrote:
> > dovecot_virtual_delivery:
> >    driver = pipe
> >    return_output
> >    command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $local_part@$domain
> -f
> > $sender_address
> >    message_prefix =

>
> > How do I need to de-taint the arg 2?
>
> The same way as you de-taint local_part and domain for other uses,
> as has been discussed here many time and is documented.
>
> There are multiple ways and which one is best depends on your situation.
>
>
> Once you've done that, you'll run into arg 4 also being tainted;
> drop the "-f $sender_address" from the command line and remove
> the
>     message_prefix =
> option setting.  The default for message_prefix is an mbox "From "
> line, and Dovecot should take the sender from that.

>
> (I am assuming that "dovecot/deliver" is the same as the
> "dovecot/dovecot_lda"
> documented by the dovecot project).
>


Yes, /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver is a symlink to dovecot_lda.


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