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Re: Multiple Vendor Unusual MIME Encoding Content Filter Bypass



On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:24:25 +0100
Hendrik Weimer <hendrik@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Several e-mail virus scanners can be tricked into passing an EICAR
> test file if the following conditions are met:
> 
> 1. the EICAR file is encoded in Base64 including characters not in the
>    standard alphabet (e.g. whitespaces) and
> 2. the part containing the EICAR file is nested within one or several
>    levels of multipart/mixed content.
> 
> Details and PoC can be found at:
> http://www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass

That's _extremely_ irresponsible to disclose bugs without giving the vendors
any chance to fix them and prepare new software releases.

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