[Mailman-Users] Re: Mime Exploit found in Mailman-2.1.2 sourcetarball

[Paul H Byerly]

     The file in question is a test file that contains the mime wrapper 
from Nimda.  The payload has been replaced with XXXX and the code is 
completely inactive.  I would say your virus scanner is a bit anal, as 
there is zero threat from the file.

Rathan Levins wrote:
I downloaded the Mailman 2.1.2 tarball yesterday, and ran into an issue
with a virus scan.  McAfee commandline virus scan found
Exploit-MIME.gen, a generic MIME format "virus" that exploits the
"Microsoft Incorrect MIME Header vulnerability".  I downloaded the
source tarball yesterday, and the virus scanner hit on it after a
crontab job ran uvscan.  Below is the output when I scanned the suspect
file.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] msgs]# uvscan
/usr/local/src/mailman-2.1.2/tests/msgs/nimda.txt
/usr/local/src/mailman-2.1.2/tests/msgs/nimda.txt
        Found the Exploit-MIME.gen virus !!!
<>< Paul 

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