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diff --git a/metadata/news/2021-05-04-exim-transports-disallow-tainted/2021-05-04-exim-transports-disallow-tainted.en.txt b/metadata/news/2021-05-04-exim-transports-disallow-tainted/2021-05-04-exim-transports-disallow-tainted.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f16e485b15d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2021-05-04-exim-transports-disallow-tainted/2021-05-04-exim-transports-disallow-tainted.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Title: Exim>=4.94 transports: tainted not permitted +Author: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2021-05-04 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: mail-mta/exim + +The Message Transfer Agent Exim disallows tainted variables in transport +configurations since version 4.94. Existing exim.conf configurations +in /etc/exim need to be reviewed for breakage prior to upgrading to + >=mail-mta/exim-4.94 to avoid error conditions at runtime. + +Since the release of Exim-4.94, transports refuse to use tainted data in +constructing a delivery location. If you use this in your transports, +your configuration will break, causing errors and possible downtime. + +Particularly, the use of $local_part in any transport, should likely be +updated with $local_part_data. Check your local_delivery transport, +which historically used $local_part. + +Unfortunately there is not much documentation on "tainted" data for +Exim[1], and to resolve this, non-official sources need to be used, such +as [2] and [3]. + + +[1] https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20201109.222746.24ea3904.en.html +[2] https://mox.sh/sysadmin/tainted-filename-errors-in-exim-4.94/ +[3] https://jimbobmcgee.wordpress.com/2020/07/29/de-tainting-exim-configuration-variables/ |