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Reject invalid characters in domains

Domains in addresses had very lax validation, which allowed them to
include characters like "/".

That could be exploited to trigger a daemon panic: a MAIL FROM
"x@evil/foo" could be accepted and, on failed delivery, a DSN queued.
Attempting to deliver the DSN would cause an MTA-STS cache lookup, which
would panic because the domain includes a "/" and crash the server.
Because the DSN would be queued, the server would crash again on
restarts, and only self-recover after give_up_send_after (20h by
default).

To fix this, we now explicitly validate the domain when normalizing it,
make MTA-STS cache not panic on invalid domains, and also make the SMTP
courier fail permanently on invalid domains.

Thanks to John JEAN <john@wargan.com> for finding and reporting this
problem. The detailed report can be found in
https://johnjean.io/advisories/chasquid-unauthenticated-remote-dos/.
This commit is contained in:
Alberto Bertogli
2026-10-08 23:54:15 +01:00
parent d2260180c6
commit 61792e3bb4
14 changed files with 255 additions and 35 deletions
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@@ -26,7 +26,22 @@ c -> RCPT TO:<pepe>
c <~ 501
c -> RCPT TO:<a@xn--->
c <- 501 5.1.2 Malformed destination domain (IDNA conversion failed)
c <- 501 5.1.2 Malformed destination domain
# Reconnect to avoid getting rejected due to too many errors.
c close
c tcp_connect localhost:1025
c <~ 220
c -> HELO localhost
c <~ 250
c -> MAIL FROM:<test@testy.com>
c <~ 250
c -> RCPT TO:<a@b/c>
c <- 501 5.1.2 Malformed destination domain
c -> RCPT TO:<a@[1.2.3.4]>
c <- 501 5.1.2 Malformed destination domain
# Reconnect to avoid getting rejected due to too many errors.
c close