[Simon Walter] Re: Bug#506353: mailscanner: many scripts allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files, and more, via symlink attacks

[Julian Field]

Send me mail from a badly setup domain, and you better not be surprised 
when I don't accept it. The RFC makes it very clear that MX records can 
only point to A records and not to CNAME records.
Get your DNS fixed and I will happily accept your mail.
:-)

On 3/12/08 22:46, Simon Walter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I send this through the mailinglist because I can't send it to
> Julian directly because of the following:
>
>   mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>      SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<simon.walter at hp-factory.de>:
>      host mx.ecs.soton.ac.uk [152.78.68.137]: 553 5.1.8 sender<simon.walter at hp-factory.de>  from hp-factory.de MX invalid #439 (kB2Lcm295123146500)
>
> I don't know what's causing this...
>
> Anyway, here is the mail in which some of you should be interested too.
>
> -------------------- Start of forwarded message --------------------
> To: Mark Purcell<msp at debian.org>
> Cc: 506353 at bugs.debian.org,  Raphael Geissert<atomo64 at gmail.com>, mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> BCC: control at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#506353: mailscanner: many scripts allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files, and more, via symlink attacks
> X-Draft-From: ("nnml:debian.bugs" 284)
> References:<200811201524.52353.atomo64 at gmail.com>
> 	<200812032338.02957.msp at debian.org>
> From: Simon Walter<simon.walter at hp-factory.de>
> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:28:09 +0100
> In-Reply-To:<200812032338.02957.msp at debian.org>  (Mark Purcell's message of "Wed\, 3 Dec 2008 23\:38\:02 +1100")
> Message-ID:<877i6hhrti.fsf at hp-factory.de>
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux)
> Lines: 51
> Xref: tharlab others.sent:737
>
>
> package mailscanner
> tags 506353 help upstream confirmed
> thanks
>
> Hello,
>
> Mark Purcell<msp at debian.org>  writes:
>    
>> On Friday 21 November 2008 08:24:46 Raphael Geissert wrote:
>>      
>>> I'm using severity grave as this package should definitely not be shipped
>>> in any release as is.
>>>        
>> Simon,
>>
>> This RC bug was reported almost two weeks ago without any comment from you.
>>
>> Are you in a position to investigate and propose a way forward for your
>> package in lenny?
>>      
>
> I have looked at the code-segments Raphael pointed out and I'm totally
> agree with him. In the current state the package should not be part of
> the lenny release.
>
> I'm in no position to fix all this. I'm not familiar enough with the
> MailScanner sourcecode and I'm not able to test the changes I would
> have to make, in particular to all the virusscanner scripts.
>
>
> I have put Julian Field (upstream author) in CC to inform him about
> all this. (@Julian: the full bugreport is here [1])
>
> If he is willing and able to fix the problems in a feature
> release before lenny is released I will try to backport the fixes to
> the current package in lenny.
>
>
> Otherwise this package should be removed.
>
>
> I'm also wondering why [2] marks CVE-2008-5140 as fixed for
> sid+lenny. It claims the bug was fix with 4.57.6-1, but there is no
> difference between 4.55.10-3 and 4.57.6-1.
>
> Sorry for the late reply.
>
>    

Jules

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