RE: The Dangers of Email Archives

From: Tim Hollebeek (thollebeekat_private)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 10:33:57 PDT

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    >  While this product itself doesn't have a hole in it; it is 
    > often used to help
    >  to translate mail for other archiving software. I've seen in 
    > some examples
    >  that email was translated with this tool and archived with 
    > other software, and html
    >  tags where translated/executed as normal..
    
    There are lots of reasonably similar flaws.  I scared the ****
    out of myself when I got a javascript error while reading the
    Nimda analysis posted to securityfocus.com.
    
    Parts were generated by just putting <pre> around the relevant
    code from Nimda, but IE is more than happy to interpret <script>
    within <pre>, which caused me to worry that the securityfocus.com
    page had been rewritten by Nimda, until I looked a bit closer.
    
    Be very, very careful how you deal with converting text to html and back.
    
    Tim Hollebeek
    Research Scientist
    Cigital Labs
    



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