Re: Image extension issue in mime.php

"Paul Lesniewski" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, August 21, 2008 03:30, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
>> My feeling is that this should be addressed by either removing the
>> restriction list completely,
>
> I would say "yes" to this, but would be curious where the original idea
> comes from. Isn't that tracable in the commit log?

It's your commit, so maybe you can help.

http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/functions/mime.php?view=log#rev12370

If this code is meant to stop "request forgeries through included
images", I'd like to know more about what this means, since, as I
noted, it wouldn't be hard for an attacker to substitute a dynamically
executed script for an "image" file on the target server.  Or perhaps
the file extension code is not specifically what fixed that actual
issue and is only a side effect?

So if the extension limitation on image files is removed, does this
expose SM to some XSS or something that it's not already exposed to
now?

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