[Esa-l] Detection rule for sendmail header exploit

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Wed Mar 5 07:22:39 PST 2003


On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, John D. Hardin wrote:

> # Attempt to trap sendmail header exploit (signature as of 03/05/3003)
> #
> :0
> * ^(From|To|CC|Reply-To|Resent-From): .*<>.*<>.*<>.*<>.*<>.*\(.*\)
> | formail -A "X-Content-Security: [$HOST] NOTIFY" \
> 	  -A "X-Content-Security: [$HOST] QUARANTINE" \
> 	  -A "X-Content-Security: [$HOST] REPORT: Trapped possible
> sendmail header exploit"

D'oh! Dammit. This is, of course, wrong. Blame it on cut-and-paste and
too little caffiene. 

Use:

:0 fi

(pipe the message through formail) instead of just

:0

If it's not a filter recipe, e.g. if you deliver to a file instead of
formail, omit the "fi" flags.

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