Opened 15 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#38 closed enhancement (fixed)
Check Newsgroups header of cancel messages
Reported by: | eagle | Owned by: | eagle |
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Priority: | low | Milestone: | 2.5.1 |
Component: | innd | Version: | |
Severity: | wishlist | Keywords: | |
Cc: |
Description
A patch from Christopher Biedl to alter ARTcancelverify to check whether at least one group in the cancel message can be found in article to be canceled.
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Change History (4)
Changed 15 years ago by
Attachment: | verifycancel-newsgroups.patch added |
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comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by
Maybe this feature should be added to the check already done on Sender: and From: headers. (This patch currently removes that check.)
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by
Milestone: | → 2.5.1 |
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According to RFC 5537 (USEPRO):
Contrary to RFC 1036 (Horton, M. and R. Adams, “Standard for interchange of USENET messages,” December 1987.), cancel control messages are not required to contain From and Sender header fields matching the target message. This requirement only encouraged cancel issuers to conceal their identity and provided no security.
The check done on Sender: and From: headers can therefore be removed.
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | new → closed |
Patch against INN 2.4.1