September 25, 2002

SPAM Attack!

SPAM is everywhere! When will this ever end? Never. The big thing now is to exploit the very popular Perl script FormMail. If you have ever hosted a web site on a Unix/Linux based server, you've probably either seen or used this script.

FormMail is a generic HTML form to e-mail gateway that sends the results of a form to the specified users. Version 1.6 has some well known security flaws. If you are using this script, you need to upgrade. Soon.

Matt's Script Archive: FormMail

As an alternative, there is a totally rewritten version from the nms Project:

Matt's Script Archive: nms Project