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Re: Real-world attacks on sendmail CA-2003-07 seen


From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr () eclipsed net>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:30:56 -0500

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:56:22PM -0500, Juan Gallego wrote:
i have to agree. althought i don't have the original messages, i happen to
log email subjects, and they have spam written all over them.

Hrm.

Worth noting, perhaps, that the intelligent cracker (as opposed to
the script kiddie) will craft port 25 exploits specifically *to*
look like spam in your logs...

If you have to ask if you're being paranoid enough, you're not.

Source addresses are pretty much meaningless in this case. If it's
an open relay, it's just as good for the exploit as it is for spam.
Whoops.

Cheers...

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr () eclipsed net

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