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Re: <victim>server formmail.pl exploit in the wild


From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris () westnet com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:25:59 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Noel Rosenberg wrote:

FormMail 1.9 (and lower) is insecure and should be replaced.

For anyone looking for a replacement, I hightly recomend cgiemail from MIT:

http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/cgiemail/

It takes all it's information from a plain text file template, so spoofing
from fields shouldn't come in to play.

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Chris Candreva  -- chris () westnet com -- (914) 967-7816
WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
http://www.westnet.com/


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