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Ben-Chi
02-24-2006, 01:19 PM
Hey there
this morning I found a lot of mails in my inbox which seemed to be spam-comments on my pp-blog. At a closer glance I found out, that these spam-comment have not been just ordinary spam-comments or normal comments. However. The text of the mail was just weared freaky stuff. In the access.log an the mail.log files of my providers server I saw these entries which just looked like that somebody used a security leak to send mails through the "save_comment"-call in the index.php.

For a fast'n'dirty workaround I commented the whole thing out to stop mailing my inbox till its borders. The messages in the access-and-mails log looked like:

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---http-access----
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200.87.19.124 - - [24/Feb/2006:08:45:57 +0100] "POST /index.php?popup=comment&x=save_comment HTTP/1.1" 200 663 www.mydomain.de "http://www.mydomain.de/" "-" "-"

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----MAIL-----
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2006/02/24-08:45:57 28.117100716.12459.1140767157 <= mbx-user Commandline=/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i ENV_Script=/pp/index.php ENV_Remote=200.87.19.124
2006/02/24-08:45:57 28.117100716.12459.1140767157 ** header too large. Max is 4000 characters


That whole Story started at something like 4 o'clock in the morning till i commented out the save_comment thing at about nine. I abondon on the comments, my dearest wish is to keep my box clean. Till that point I had more than 130 Mails. So just Mails. Spam-Mails from the index.php. Disgusting!

Anybody has any similiar behavior?!?!

rgds.

BEN

GeoS
02-25-2006, 12:01 AM
Which version of PP do you use? If below 1.5 Beta1 try to do an update to it. It should temporarly fix this bug before you will be able to download PP 1.5 RC1.

Ben-Chi
02-25-2006, 12:05 AM
As a matter of fact I use belo 1.5 - PP 1.4.3. I'll try to update.
Thanks a lot for the response. I'll post the effect of the update.

GeoS
02-25-2006, 12:13 AM
Remember - before update make backup.

Good luck.

Ben-Chi
02-27-2006, 09:35 AM
Back again, the update failed. As the case may be the update ran, the admin page was alright (except of the cropdiv error), but the index.php didn't give any content. Well, I'll keep my 1.4.3.-installation. I loaded the 1.4.3's index.php with the save_comment up, now, at the time, I have no SPAM-Mails. As long as everything looks clean... I'll stay tuned with 1.4.3.

GeoS
02-27-2006, 11:13 PM
Maybe failture is caused by one of addons or incomplete update. We dont know enough to say where is problem.