Re: mail-bombing

2004-12-12 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Marek Podmaka wrote: So is there any solution for this? We can't use safe_mode in php, it's too restrictive for most customers. We use postfix (default version in woody) A couple of thoughts: 1. Transparently proxy SMTP to your an MTA you control, which limits the number o

Re: phpBB vulnerability exploited

2004-12-12 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Sunday 12 December 2004 17:46, Marek Podmaka wrote: >   I don't want to give hints on how to exploit this, but the attacker >   did wget the .tgz file, unpacked it in /tmp and run the program. > >   So update all your phpBB installations ASAP (and of course all >   installations of your customer

phpBB vulnerability exploited

2004-12-12 Thread Marek Podmaka
Hello debian-isp, maybe little off-topic, but I want to remind you of this phpBB vulnerability, which is fixed in version 2.0.11 (announced on 18th November) which "addresses a potentially serious exploit". I am writing this because it's not potentional, but real. Before 2 weeks, someon

mail-bombing

2004-12-12 Thread Marek Podmaka
Hi! Few days earlier one of our customers sent about 90.000 mails using mail() function in php and that's bad... Fortunately most of them stayed in mail queue, but I have been lucky to notice it early. All those mails were for about 4 different addresses, 2 of them wrote us complaints.