On page 54 of RFC2821, a text line should be shorter than 1000 characters if I did not misunderstood it. So I'd proposal the following patch, which mitigate the issue by rejecting anything which contains RFC-violation.
Cheers, Xin LI --- qmail-smtpd.c.orig Mon Jan 19 21:08:35 2004 +++ qmail-smtpd.c Mon Jan 19 21:38:31 2004 @@ -317,7 +317,17 @@ if (pos < 2) if (ch != "\r\n"[pos]) flagmaybey = 0; if (flagmaybey) if (pos == 1) flaginheader = 0; } - ++pos; + if((++pos) > 1000) { + /* + * RFC 2821 has explicitly defined a text line can contain + * 1000 characters at maximium. This is a workaround to + * stop copying characters there, but I am not sure about + * the side effect. Consider this as an attack and set hops + * to MAXHOPS to prevent future processing. + */ + *hops = MAXHOPS; + break; + } if (ch == '\n') { pos = 0; flagmaybex = flagmaybey = flagmaybez = 1; } } switch(state) { _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"