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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:26:56 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: what was that?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030331122450.031ace50@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20030331185646.GB40453@madman.celabo.org>
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At 11:56 AM 3/31/2003, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

>> It means that someone's trying to exploit a buffer overrun
>> vulnerability.
>
>No, I don't think so.

You have a right to disagree, of course. However, some MUAs
HAVE been reported to have buffer overflow vulnerabilities 
that can be exploited via an excessively long message ID
header. I have installed a filter that shortens them to
prevent Outlook users from being nailed by this bug.

--Brett



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