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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 21:01:06 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any procmail experts here?
Message-ID:  <199807290301.VAA28924@lariat.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <199807290159.TAA26543@lariat.lariat.org>

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Whoops.... As many of you have doubtless already noted, the header
we need to catch is

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="<verylogname>"

--Brett

At 07:59 PM 7/28/98 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
 
>We have dozens of users who might get bit by the MIME filename buffer
>overflow bug described at
>
>http://www.sjmercury.com/business/microsoft/docs/security0728.htm
>
>and would like to try to use procmail to plug the hole (it seems to be the
>best tool for the job). However, I have no experience with procmail. Could
>someone help me write a procmail.rc that will eliminate the extra-long
>filenames, truncating them back to (say) 64 characters max? All that's
>required is to recognize the Content-type: .... filename="<name>" header
>and make sure that <name> is chopped if it's too long.
>
>This would be a fix for which thousands of sysadmins would be exceedinglyy
>grateful.
>
>--Brett
>
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