Re: postfix on wwwmaster.postgresql.org is shut down

Just doubled checked, and it isn't *our* server there ... was getting a
bit worried that somehow someone was spam'ng through the bt server or
something *wipe brow*

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Gavin M. Roy wrote:

> Thanks, I'll send an abuse complaint to ev1, like they'll do anything.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gavin
>
> On Dec 16, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>>> There are 23k messages in the queue right now that have been
>>> 'received from localhost' by user www@svr2.postgresql.org ...
>>> someone is making use of a 'hole' in one of our CGIs, but I
>>> can't seem to figure out which one, so have let Dave/Magnus
>>> know and hopefully they can figure out which one ...
>>>
>>> Until we've found and plugged the hole, postfix is down ...
>>> if someone reports a problem with sending an email, please
>>> let us know ...
>>
>>
>> Problem identified.
>>
>> There was a horribly old and outdated version of awstats.pl on the
>> system, that was for some reason linked in and possible to use without
>> any authentication or anything. There are known security issues in it,
>> and adding logging everywhere showed that that's what was exploited
>> using the srv2.postgresql.org virtual server (which isn't even in used).
>>
>> I've disabled it in apache and removed the files from the server as
>> well.
>>
>> Yet another example of why it's overdue that we're doing something about
>> all the stuff that's installed and active, but not actually used :-( But
>> as that is work in progress now, I'll just wait for that to get done :-)
>>
>> I've re-enabled postfix after deleting all the spam in the queue.
>>
>> If someone wants to pursue it (Gavin?), the hits came in from
>> 66.98.214.41, which is on ev1servers.net. There are still log files
>> available showing four requests to it that coincided perfectly with spam
>> mail entering the queue.
>>
>> //Magnus
>
> Gavin M. Roy
> 800 Pound Gorilla
> gmr@ehpg.net
>
>

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