Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Re: secure MTA (was: news from ...)

On Wed, Apr 08, 2020, Kevin Chadwick wrote:

> OpenSMTPD does not listen to the internet, by default and even if you do set it

From: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
To: oss-security@lists.openwall.com
Message-ID: <20200224184538.GF17396@localhost.localdomain>

- Client-side exploitation: This vulnerability is remotely exploitable
in OpenSMTPD's (and hence OpenBSD's) default configuration. Although
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> Is it hard to write a secure mail server, sure. Look at exims bugs.
[Is that like saying:
"Is it hard to write a secure OS, sure. Look at Linux bugs."?
]

How about qmail (or postfix)? (and some other barely known MTA)

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