gfi.com email vulnerability tests

[Kevin Spicer]

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 23:33, Peter Bonivart wrote:

>There's already a rule covering this in filename.rules.conf:

>deny    \s{10,}         Filename contains lots of white space

>I wonder why it didn't stop the "hide.hta (lots of space here) "?

Because its a subject not a filename.  The exploit appears to be that
certain mail clients give an attachment with no name the message subject
as a name, thus triggering the exploit.




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