Re: formail (was moron at perl/cgi)

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Author: irb
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Subject: Re: formail (was moron at perl/cgi)
* Quoth Victor Odhner (), on Thu, AD 2006.01.12, at 07:07 -0700:
>
> ForMail has some legendary security holes, due to its trust
> of user data. Just google for formail exploit
> to see 22 pages of references.
> This script is a poster child for bad CGI usage.
> Being under selinux would be no protection here.


There's a project called NMS available at http://nms-cgi.sf.net/ that
attempts to reimplement a number of Matt's scripts in sane and secure
ways, FormMail.pl included. See also
http://www.scriptarchive.com/nms.html.

/i.
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