I believe I understand what I'm to do here--use LDAP to look up the
$local_part and return it, thus untainting it--but I'm finding the examples
in the documentation less than clear. Can someone point me elsewhere?
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 8:44 AM Kurt Jaeger <exim-users@???> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I applied 4.96-1 to our test systems and routing to the LISTSERVer
> > began to fail with "*Tainted arg 2* for listserv_transport transport
> > command:<name of LISTSERV>
> >
> > The transport is quite simple:
> >
> > # Hand off to LISTSERV lsv_admin script
> >
> > listserv_transport:
> >
> > driver = pipe
> >
> > command = "/opt/lsoft/listserv/bin/lsv_amin /opt/lsoft/listserv/spool
> > $local_part"
> >
> > return_output
> >
> > What changed? And how do I fix it?
>
> Exim is now checking data from external sources much more rigerous
> and does not longer trust it. For the concept behind this:
>
>
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-concept_index.html
>
> Search in that index for the keyword 'de-tainting'.
>
> In your case: "$local_part" is tainted, and has to be changed
> so that it can be considered trustworthy.
>
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>
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