On 2013-01-07 Philipp Kern <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 02:20:06PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
> > Due to insufficient quoting it is possible to pass on arbitrary
> > arguments to spfquery and therefore bypass SPF checks. The fix is not
> > invasive, but it changes dpkg conffiles.
[...]
> Just to be clear: The underquoting does not yield a situation where one
> can use shell escapes or similar? It's "just" about being able to bypass
> the SPF check by supplying crafted data?

Hello,

As exim's ${run ...} expansion does not use a shell and there is no
recursive expansion nothing dangerous should happen there. However I
just do not know (and cannot judge) whether spfquery handles broken
input that badly.

cu andreas
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