[Esd-l] Fw: .com file which passed thru the sanityzer

[John D. Hardin]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Juan Maria Gil wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Today we have received some emails from a security test sent to us by SecurityMetrics,
> eveyone of the executables were sanitized but one.
> This is the significative parts of this message:
> 
> Subject: [raq550] Nessus antivirus test 4: broken MIME attachment (ISO encoding)

It's probably the encoding of the filename. The sanitizer isn't up to
speed on some of the more esoteric formats.

> --=-=-= 
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="eicar.=?ISO-8859-1?Q?c?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?o?=
>  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?m?="

Yup, that's it. The sanitizer does not currently understand that
complex an encoding.

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