Blocked bmp files (buffer overflow) anyone?

[Jim Holland]

Hi Julian

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Julian Field wrote:

> This is from a Microsoft vulnerability a few months back. Most machines
> of course should have the patch installed by now, but I bet they haven't.
>
> I blocked *.bmp files for quite a while. But I dropped that block recently.

Can we assume that if any dangerous bmp files arrive they will be detected
by say ClamAV?  I find bmp files pretty annoying due to their size but our
system receives quite a few that our members do want to have delivered to
their mailboxes.

Regards

Jim Holland
System Administrator
MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service

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