> Not quite knowing how SMTP vulnerabilities are exploited, I
> am assuming that this can not be executed by simply sending ...

In fact it's as nearly as simple as writing an email message! Durring the
SMTP-Envelope session the attacker has to specify a mail-from and rcpt-to
address and the only thing that must be done is to include in this address
the code that should be executed on the server.
It's not a simple "format c:" that you can attach to the email-address but
the sample exploit does exactly show how to do and with a little bit of
knowledge you can also easily become a hacker.

Having third-party gateway solutions (Alligate, ASSP, ORF, ...) in front
of your server would help but only if your Imail-SMTP-Service is
completely unreachable from at least the internet.

Markus

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