Re: inventive syntax, at least

Mark Martinec <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:49:40 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization Jozef Stefan Institute
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Yes, apparently qmail:
>>   qmail is a vector for CVE-2014-6271 (bash "shellshock")
>>   http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/qmail/users/138578

John Levine wrote:
> Depends how your computer is set up.  Qmail uses /bin/sh for command
> deliveries, and it puts parameters in environment variables, so if
> your /bin/sh is actually bash (a bad idea but very common on linux
> systems) bad stuff can happen.
> 
> I would think that sendmail and postfix .forward files would have the
> same problem.

Postfix is not a vector for shellshock, explicitly stated here:
   http://marc.info/?l=postfix-users&m=141461595214262

Don't know about sendmail, although we would probably hear
about it by now if it were.

   Mark

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