27 Jan
2002
27 Jan
'02
10:06 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 08:54:42PM -0600, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
Anyone hear of some sort of a cracking method that uses cgi-bin/formmail? I've seen alot of these in my httpd/access_log files lately. I don't have formmail.pl anywhere on my system - I flushed all of the cgi-bin stuff that came with apache a long time ago.
Spammers use it for sending spam. Early versions of FormMail didn't do any input checking and could be used to send mail to any recipient. -j