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>A.8. Adding MIME and Filetype Checks</H1
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>&#13; These checks depend on features found in Tom Kistner's
<TT
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>Exiscan-ACL</TT
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>&#13; Exiscan-ACL includes support for MIME decoding, and file name
suffix checks (or to use a misnomer from the Windows world,
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>"file extension"</SPAN
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block most Windows virii - but not those that are transmitted in
<TT
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Outlook/MSIE HTML rendering vulnerabilities - see the discussion
on <A
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>&#13; These checks should go into <A
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>&#13; # Reject messages that have serious MIME errors.
#
deny
message = Serious MIME defect detected ($demime_reason)
demime = *
condition = ${if &#62;{$demime_errorlevel}{2}{1}{0}}
# Unpack MIME containers and reject file extensions used by worms.
# This calls the demime condition again, but it will return cached results.
# Note that the extension list may be incomplete.
#
deny
message = We do not accept ".$found_extension" attachments here.
demime = bat:btm:cmd:com:cpl:dll:exe:lnk:msi:pif:prf:reg:scr:vbs:url
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>&#13; You will note that the <TT
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>demime</TT
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invoked twice in the example above. However, the results are
cached, so the message is not actually processed twice.
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