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Date:      Wed, 09 Sep 1998 00:55:11 +1000
From:      Jim Mock <jim@phrantic.phear.net>
To:        "mtts" <adm@gus.orgus.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: trouble
Message-ID:  <199809081453.HAA13488@phear.net>
In-Reply-To: <199809081001.QAA04193@gus.orgus.ru>

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At , you wrote:
>Hi!
>Some not very friendly people told us that our EMAIL-servser has a hole in 
>securety.
>It powered by FreeBSD2.2.1 and has sendmail provided by OS and POP3 from the 
>package. Everything was installed from a CD-ROM sold by Walnut Creek CDROM( 
>dated April 1997). 
>Can You tell us what kind of problems may be with it and how to solve them.
>If You are able, could You test our E-mail server. The name is
email.orgus.ru.
>Thanks
>

Update qpopper.  I just telneted to your pop port on the machine in
question and here's what I got..

[jim@phear:~]$ telnet email.orgus.ru 110
Trying 195.16.115.189...
Connected to gus.orgus.ru.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK QPOP (version 2.2) at gus.orgus.ru starting.
<4829.905265927@gus.orgus.ru>
^]
telnet> close
Connection closed.  

The version of qpopper you're running is exploitable to a root shell.
You'll want to update it as soon as possible.  The latest version is in the
ports collection..

cd /usr/ports/mail
make popper
cd popper
make install

that'll update you to 2.53 which is fixed and is the latest version (as far
as I know).  You can also download the source and find more info at
http://www.eudora.com/freeware/qpop.html
Btw.. updating sendmail to the latest version probably wouldn't hurt either.

Hope this helps.

Jim
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