Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:00:31 +1000 From: Mark.Andrews@isc.org To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: post last sendmail upgrade Message-ID: <200304170500.h3H50WKN034090@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:17:04 MST." <20030416201704.A28970@zardoc.esmtp.org>
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> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003, Mark.Andrews@isc.org wrote: > > > > I've noticed email corruption post the last upgrade to sendmail > > committed to stable. Is anyone else experiencing this? > > What kind of corruption? > > You may want to follow the advise in the last sentence: > > To provide partial protection for internal, unpatched MTAs that may be > performing 7->8 or 8->7 bit MIME conversions, the default > for MaxMimeHeaderLength has been changed to 2048/1024. > Note: this does have a performance impact, and it only > protects against frontal attacks from the outside. > To disable the checks and return to pre-8.12.9 defaults, > set MaxMimeHeaderLength to -1/-1. > > It seems that the MaxMimeHeaderLength checks remove '\0' under > certain circumstances. One wonders why src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc has: define(`confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH', `256/128') > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews@isc.org
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