[Esd-l] This looks like something new

Mark_Saunders Mark_Saunders at piucorp.com
Thu Sep 19 05:27:01 PDT 2002


How about an environment variable that would define the types we wish to
defang.
This would allow immediate control over a new issue, and allow us to be as
liberal or paranoid as we wish.

"John D. Hardin" wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Mark_Saunders wrote:
>
> > Perhaps a new tag to defang?
> >  http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/287482/2002-08-15/2002-08-21/0
>
> That's not really a tag, but it does bring up a good point: should the
> sanitizer attempt to restrict the form of URLs in present in mail?
>
> For example, any links not to (http|https|ftp):// would be defanged.
>
> Comments?
>
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