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Re: formmail.pl - What hack is this?
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:08:44 -0500
In message <011601c1a7a7$22eae140$c89d05c7@TAKA>, "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" wr ites:
Anyone hear of some sort of a cracking method that uses cgi-bin/formmail? I've seen alot of these in my httpd/access_log files lately. I don't have formmail.pl anywhere on my system - I flushed all of the cgi-bin stuff that came with apache a long time ago.
Spammers are actively looking for such scripts to abuse to send junk mail. See, for example, http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2001/Mar/1001108.html --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com
Current thread:
- formmail.pl - What hack is this? John Palmer (NANOG Acct) (Jan 27)
- Re: formmail.pl - What hack is this? Jeff Wasilko (Jan 27)
- Re: formmail.pl - What hack is this? Andy Walden (Jan 27)
- RE: formmail.pl - What hack is this? Tim Irwin (Jan 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: formmail.pl - What hack is this? Steven M. Bellovin (Jan 27)