[ mailman-Bugs-815297 ] Breaking signatures in message/rfc822
attachement!
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Bugs item #815297, was opened at 2003-09-30 17:42
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mmutz
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Category: security/privacy
Group: 2.1 (stable)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Bernhard Reiter (ber)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Breaking signatures in message/rfc822 attachement!
Initial Comment:
Mailman _must_ not touch MIME-parts which are nested
more deeply in the mail. As tested with Mailman 2.1.2,
header lines will be sometimes reformatted in
message/rfc822 attachments which will break the OpenPGP
signature
(also conforming to the PGP/MIME standard) on that part.
I'm attaching a simple email with on long header.
Forward this as MIME part and sign it sending it
through Mailman,
the signature will be broken.
This is an email security affecting bug, because if people
start believing that a *BAD* signature does not mean much,
because they get many broken by mailman, they will not
react
to a seriously manipulated email anymore!
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Comment By: Marc Mutz (mmutz)
Date: 2003-10-03 15:54
Message:
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This is not limited to message/rfc822 at all:
As a specific example, create a message with an attachment
and add the header
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="more-than-70-chars.
txt"
(all in a single line), then send it through a mailman-managed ml.
Result: mailman "fixes" the message to look like
Content-Disposition: attachment;
\tfilename="more-than-70-chars.txt"
It even does that inside a multipart/signed part, and this is
where it breaks the signature verification.
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Comment By: Bernhard Reiter (ber)
Date: 2003-09-30 17:46
Message:
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Here is the email signed by myself and broken
after delivery through mailman. Check the "To:" header line.
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