Re: Don't want to replace IDA sendmail

[nlawson () statler csc calpoly edu (Nathan Lawson)]

> So does anyone know exactly what the problem is?  The 8lgm report is
> (sadly) too vague to be of much use.  

I believe this advisory refers to newlines in the From part of a message.
By specifying sendmail -F, a user can supply a string as the From name for
a message.  This string could be any nasty sequence of characters and if the
mail was queued (i.e. the host was down), the next queue run would activate
the modified file.

> Could I maybe patch IDA so I don't
> have to worry about the port to V8 right now (I was going to get around to
> it, but haven't had and don't have the time....)?  

You could patch the input routines to only take alphanumeric and a small 
subset of punctuation characters as input.

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