MailScanner 4.79.3-1 taint problem in TNEF module

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Dec 15 13:58:19 GMT 2009


Fixed. Will be in the next release.

Thanks for reporting it!

Jules.

On 07/12/2009 14:40, ThB wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just found another taint problem in MailScanner 4.79.3-1.
> The lib/MailScanner/TNEF.pm module throws a taint error if I'm using the
> external tnef expander.
> TNEF Expander = /usr/local/bin/tnef --maxsize=100000000
>
>
> # /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner --debug --id 1NHa3y-0003zs-3E
>
> In Debugging mode, not forking...
> Trying to setlogsock(native)
> INFO:: Meaningless output that goes nowhere, to keep SAVI happy
> Building a message batch to scan...
> Have a batch of 1 message.
> Insecure dependency in rename while running with -T switch at
> /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/TNEF.pm line 322.
>
>
> Using the internal TNEF expander (TNEF Expander  = internal) works without
> problem.
>
>
> regards
> Thomas
>
>
>    

Jules

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