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diff --git a/design-notes.html b/design-notes.html index ffd82bf8..149d67b4 100644 --- a/design-notes.html +++ b/design-notes.html @@ -33,6 +33,23 @@ ESR made previously, and the differences and new directions will be laid out in this document. It is therefore a sort of a TODO document, until the necessary code revisions have been made.</p> +<h2>Security</h2> + +<p>Fetchmail was handed over in a pretty poor shape, security-wise. It will +happily talk to the network with root privileges, use sscanf() to read +remotely received data into fixed-length stack-based buffers without +length limitation and so on. A full audit is required and security +concepts will have to be applied. Random bits are:</p> + +<ul> + <li>code talking to the network does not require root privileges and + needs to run without root permissions</li> + <li>all input must be validated, all strings must be length checked, + all integers range checked</li> + <li>all types will need to be reviewed whether they are signed or + unsigned</li> +</ul> + <h2>SMTP forwarding</h2> <p>Fetchmails multidrop and rewrite options will process addresses |