I had one of my servers with this problem.
It was Roundcube and Apache.
Still not sure that I'm safe enough. It didn't happen again so far, and I
hope it wont. I have two other servers, for witch I gladly bought a QMT
install cd to prevent any of this :)


Regards,

António Pedro Lima

> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: Philip Nix Guru [mailto:phi...@ows.ch]
> Enviada: segunda-feira, 31 de Agosto de 2009 21:20
> Para: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
> Assunto: Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail machine being spammer help...
> 
> Hello
> we had a lot of those attacks on our web hosting servers in the past
> and it has only to do with apache . It is a known and old exploit,
> a spam relay is using Apache to forward data to an open mail relay.
> We check those at router level but the mod_security works fine for a
> single machine
> 
> Really it is an old exploit.
> Nothing to worry about regarding the toaster, well you can always add a
> nice mod_security configuration to take care of all those little exploits
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jake Vickers wrote:
> > Eric Shubert wrote:
> >> Thanks Jake. So is this simply an apache configuration issue? Is
> >> there an easy way it can be 'fixed' in a toaster package configuration?
> >>
> >
> > It's actually an issue with the programming of the application
> > (talking about Roundcube here). There are a couple different Apache
> > modules that can be utilized to proxy or filter the PHP code used and
> > help prevent the exploits in the code.
> > I'm sure something could be written into QTP to install any one of
> > those modules if someone wants to lay out a skeleton that can be used
> > as a base for the installation of the module.
> >
> >
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