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It doesn’t take much for a machine to become irrevocably tainted, so the fact that they are doing a recall doesn’t, in and of itself, say much about the magnitude.

Do you have some other data to substantiate your ire or are you just piling on?




From the security advisory:

> The vulnerability stemmed from incomplete input validation of user supplied .tar files as it pertains to the names of the files contained within the archive. Consequently, a remote attacker could format file names in a particular manner that would result in remotely executing a system command through Perl's qx operator with the privileges of the Email Security Gateway product.

I would not be comfortable to continue using a product that contained such an egregious flaw.


Improper input validation chained to command injection? Those are quite common unfortunately.




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