[ mailman-Bugs-815297 ] Breaking signatures in message/rfc822 attachement!

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Bugs item #815297, was opened at 2003-09-30 19:42
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by ber
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Category: security/privacy
Group: 2.1 (stable)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 8
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: Bernhard Reiter (ber)
Date: 2004-05-10 20:15

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There is another possibility when
mailman breaks the signature and that is
when the signed part contains 
an empty header with _two_ spaces after
the colon, like forward and sign an email with

X-Empty-Header-with-two-spaces:<space><space>

patch 933757 does not remedy this, though.


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Comment By: Bernhard Reiter (ber)
Date: 2004-04-12 19:17

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I have created a patch to address the problem.

[ 933757 ] fix for [815297] signatures break
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=933757&group_id=103&atid=300103


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Comment By: Marc Mutz (mmutz)
Date: 2003-10-03 17:54

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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 19:46

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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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