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

From: Jay Chandler (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2007 - 17:55:56 EDT

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    Eddy Ilg wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > just wanted to say that deleting the mailq once (postsuper -d ALL)
    > solved the problem. We had problems with a full disk some time before
    > and it seems that as long as the disk was full, postfix accepted the
    > mails it should not accept.
    >
    > Best regards
    >

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you're wrong.

    The headers you pasted earlier showed that the mail originated locally--
    Postfix will likely allow local users to send as whomever they want.
    Something's exploiting userid 1001, and if that's a "custom spam
    script," I'm going to guess that it's vulnerable. It's also possible
    that something else that userid touches is busted, or that it's got a
    weak password that was bruteforced.

    Doing a postsuper -d ALL will clear out your deferred queue, but what
    happens the next time someone uses the compromised account? You haven't
    really solved anything.

    -- 
    Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ
    Living Legend / Systems Exorcist
    Today's Excuse: asynchronous inode failure
    

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