formmail.pl - What hack is this?

Mon Jan 28 03:15:59 UTC 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> John Palmer (NANOG Acct)
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:55 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Cc: 'BSDI users List'
> Subject: formmail.pl - What hack is this?
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> John
>

A quick search at securityfocus.org reveals that there were a couple of
formmail security problems and loophole that spammers used dating back to
last year.  Here's a link to an email in the archive on securityfocus.org
that has a brief synopsis:

http://www.securityfocus.org/archive/1/193497

Hope this helps,
Tim