Bug#325550: php4: Problems with mail() function allow relaying through mailforms...

2005-08-30 Thread Luc Stroobant
Additional remark. After a while, I figured out they probably didn't insert the extra receivers via the email message ($r) --although they tried that too, had to sort out hundreds of log entries-- but through the from/email variable. There was a problem with the validation of the from-address in

Bug#325550: php4: Problems with mail() function allow relaying through mailforms...

2005-08-29 Thread Luc Stroobant
Package: php4 Version: 4:4.3.10-15 Severity: normal Last weekend, we noticed some attempts to abuse on of our mailforms. Analysis of our mail logs showed some mails where sent through a php script. As the "To" field was hard coded in the script and register_globals was off, the spammer must have u