Egads! I was bouncing SAtalk email since last weekend, so I am resending
the below question. Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mad
Martian
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 3:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SAtalk] BUGGY_CGI?


Ok, I switched to NMS FormMail version 3.08c1 and I get the same
BUGGY_CGI result. Is there some configuration I need to tweak? Here are
my variables:

  $DEBUGGING         = 1;
  $emulate_matts_code= 0;
  $secure            = 1;
  $allow_empty_ref   = 1;
  $max_recipients    = 5;
  $mailprog          = '/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t';
  $postmaster        = '';
  @referers          = qw(www.madmartian.com);
  @allow_mail_to     = qw(madmartian.com);
  @recipients        = ();
  %recipient_alias   = ();
  @valid_ENV         = qw(REMOTE_HOST REMOTE_ADDR REMOTE_USER
HTTP_USER_AGENT);
  $locale            = '';
  $charset           = 'iso-8859-1';
  $date_fmt          = '%A, %B %d, %Y at %H:%M:%S';
  $style             = '/css/nms.css';
  $no_content        = 0;
  $double_spacing    = 1;
  $wrap_text         = 0;
  $wrap_style        = 1;
  $send_confirmation_mail = 0;
  $confirmation_text = <<'END_OF_CONFIRMATION';

Thanks,

-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob
Apthorpe
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 2:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] BUGGY_CGI?


Hi,

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:17:50 -0700 "Spam Sucks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Anyone know what Spamassassin is testing to trip the BUGGY_CGI sensor?
> Is there a web site that lists the tests of each of the default
> settings? I could only find lists of the default scores and
descriptions
> (even on the spamassasin.org site).
> 
> The message I get is:
> 
> BUGGY_CGI          (2.8 points)  Broken CGI script message
> 
> I am using a very simple and standard FormMail form on my website and
> forms sent to me from my own web site are getting marked as spam!

If you are running the original FormMail from Matt's Script Archive
(yes, that monstrous security hole distrubted from
http://worldwidemart.com/scripts/formmail.shtml), you have much bigger
problems than setting off your local copy of SpamAssassin. The original
FormMail is so rife with bugs and security holes it's not funny (good
news: it no longer offers shell access to your machine; bad news: it
still turns your webserver into an open mail relay.) Stop worrying about
SpamAssassin until after you replace FormMail with a secure equivalent,
such as:

 - http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml
 - ftp://ftp.monkeys.com/pub/formmail/1.9s/

Details at:
http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/formmail-advisory.pdf or
http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/formmail-advisory.ps
http://www.securityfocus.com/corporate/research/top10attacks_q1_2002.sht
ml

> I also tried giving a negative score to having a particular subject
(the
> subject of my form) but couldn't get that to work either.
> 
[...]
> 
> Still didn't work. I have lowered the score of BUGGY_CGI as a
> workaround, but I would like to solve these two problems.

Leave BUGGY_CGI alone; it's doing what it's supposed to do (detecting
FormMail spam.) Replace your FormMail script with something that doesn't
turn your system into an open relay and SpamAssassin should work as
intended, no rule-mangling necessary.

hth,

-- Bob


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