[Mailman-Users] Is there a security hole in Mailman?

Jon D. Slater Jon.Slater at LPBroadband.Net
Mon Feb 13 17:31:00 CET 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-bounces+jon.slater=lpbroadband.net at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+jon.slater=lpbroadband.net at python.org] 
> On Behalf Of Jeff Donsbach
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 10:10 AM
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a security hole in Mailman?
> 
> On 2/12/06, Jon D. Slater <Jon.Slater at lpbroadband.net> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there a security hole in Mailman?
> >
> >
> > How are the evil spammers harvesting my list names when they aren't 
> > on
> the
> > 'listinfo' page?
> >
> 
> >From the address book(s) of one or some of you subscribers infected
> with a virus/worm?
> 
> >
> > And, more importantly, is there a way to prevent it?  (BTW, I'm also
> using
> > SPAM ASSASSIN and a lot of these SPAM messages still get through.)
> >
> 
> Is your list set for "subscribers only" posting? Set your list to hold 
> posts from non-members for moderation.
> 
> Keep feeding the spam messages to "sa-learn".
> 
> Jeff D

I'm already doing that.  My complaint is that I have to go in and manually
reject or ignore these messages.

How are they getting my list names in the first place?

I don't believe this is an issue where an individual user may have been
compromised, because no single user accesses all the groups on all of the
servers.

Jon




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