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Did you know? SpamAssasin can run remote commands as root!

Posted by andreyka, 03-19-2010, 03:41 PM

Observant reader Roy caught an interesting exploit attempt against his SMTP server. His review of the logs turned up this: Handler Bojan notes that it appears that the bad guys have started to actively exploit SpamAssassins milter vulnerability that has been published last weekend (more details at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...0-03/0139.html). The perl script collects some information about the local host and tries to send it to 203.59.123.114 on port 80 this host appears to be unreachable at the moment though. More info

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