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Jan. 12th, 2005 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingA bug in GMail apparently causes partial messages to be transmited to incorrect recipients.
Apparently, when mail with a malformed "From" or "Reply-to" address is sent to a GMail account, the system that reads the messages continues to parse all further data as part of that address, until a closing character or (potentially) a limit on the buffer is reached. This "other data" includes other messages stored on the GMail server. This allows significant (if totally random) interception of messages sent to GMail accounts.
Apparently, when mail with a malformed "From" or "Reply-to" address is sent to a GMail account, the system that reads the messages continues to parse all further data as part of that address, until a closing character or (potentially) a limit on the buffer is reached. This "other data" includes other messages stored on the GMail server. This allows significant (if totally random) interception of messages sent to GMail accounts.