RE: TrendMicro Interscan VirusWall security problem

From: Pedro Quintanilha (PQuintanilhaat_private)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 07:09:20 PDT

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    Trend´s support (US and Brazil) confirm tha it just occurs in W32... I´ve not tested it on UX.
    
    Pedro Quintanilha
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Patrick Morris [mailto:pmorrisat_private]
    Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 3:36 PM
    To: Pedro Quintanilha
    Cc: bugtraqat_private
    Subject: Re: TrendMicro Interscan VirusWall security problem
    
    
    This occurs on Unix installations as well.  Depending what you need
    to know the original sender's IP for, there are several ways to work
    around it.
    
    On Fri, 24 May 2002, Pedro Quintanilha wrote:
    
    > In the most instalations Interscan listens on port 25 (SMTP), 
    > receives the message, scan it, and then re-send it to the "real" 
    > SMTP daemon (listening on another port), preserving the SMTP-header 
    > present in the message.
    > But, since it doesn´t includes a new line on SMTP-header with 
    > the sender´s IP, and doesn´t write any extra log including it 
    > (it just logs virus occurrences), the final message header will not 
    > contain the real sender´s IP!!
    



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