Error expanding TNEF attachments in new 4.84.5-2

Jeremy McSpadden jeremy at fluxlabs.net
Tue Mar 13 13:24:52 GMT 2012


So it's a Taint in perl issue .. What does —debug output?


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From: Adri Koppes <adrik at salesmanager.nl<mailto:adrik at salesmanager.nl>>
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:13:48 +0100
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Subject: RE: Error expanding TNEF attachments in new 4.84.5-2

Jeremy,

The perms are 755, owner is root and group is clamav.
But the incoming/* directories are created by MailScanner, so setting correct perms should be done by MailScanner.
Also the same setup worked fine with version 4.83.5.
If I replace ‘lib/MailScanner/TNEF.pm’ with the corresponding file from version 4.83.5, then everything works fine again.

Adri.


From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info<mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jeremy McSpadden
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Subject: Re: Error expanding TNEF attachments in new 4.84.5-2

could not create subdirectory q2DCDfuq022124//tnefdDM1SB

Check perms
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From: Adri Koppes <adrik at salesmanager.nl<mailto:adrik at salesmanager.nl>>
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:44:55 +0100
To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info<mailto:mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>>
Subject: Error expanding TNEF attachments in new 4.84.5-2

Julian,

I just updated to the last version 4.84.5-2 and noticed a bug with the new ’mktemp’ fixes.
When I receive a message having a tnef attachment I get the following messages in syslog:

Mar 13 13:13:45 mail MailScanner[17323]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 32172 bytes
Mar 13 13:13:45 mail MailScanner[17323]: Expanding TNEF archive at /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/incoming/17323/q2DCDfuq022124/winmail.dat
Mar 13 13:13:45 mail MailScanner[17323]: Trying to unpack nwinmail.dat in message q2DCDfuq022124, could not create subdirectory q2DCDfuq022124//tnefdDM1SB, failed to unpack TNEF message
Mar 13 13:13:45 mail MailScanner[17323]: Corrupt TNEF winmail.dat that cannot be analysed in message q2DCDfuq022124

This is using the external tnef decoder setting in MailScanner.conf
The message is not sent to the recipients, instead an ‘Other Bad Content Detected’ report and notice is generated.

Best regards,

Adri.

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