Re: Server accepting mails that are normally refused - hack?

From: Victor Duchovni (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2007 - 17:17:49 EDT

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    On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:11:54PM +0200, Eddy Ilg wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > our mailserver is filling it's queue with mails that it should not
    > accept. E.g.:
    > sender:
    > recipient:

    The vast majority of similar cases are HTTP feedback forms, or other
    insecure CGI scripts. Logs reveal how the email enters your system.

    > Received: by mail.dextermedia.net (Postfix, from userid 1001)
    > id 082E98062CC; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:42 +0200 (CEST)

    This message arrived via a local submission from user "1001", not
    via SMTP. Likely this is a web-server application account.

    To plug the leak while you look more closely:

            authorized_submit_users = !login1001, static:all

    where "login1001" is the login name in /etc/passwd that goes with
    uid 1001.

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    	Viktor.
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