Re: CORRECTION to CODE: FormMail.pl can be used to send anonymousemail

2001-03-13 Thread Scott Buchanan
To reply to all of these messages... Patching FormMail to check the referrer is NOT ample security. It takes about 30 seconds to write a Perl script to POST to FormMail.pl with a faked HTTP_REFERRER field. Probably the only useful solution is to hack the script to use an array of valid email

Re: CORRECTION to CODE: FormMail.pl can be used to send anonymousemail

2001-03-12 Thread Scott Buchanan
Yeah, we actually had an incident of that long ago on our webservers, seems a few people know about it. The problem is two-fold - 1) The FormMail program uses a referrer array as the ONLY security check for calls to the program (which can be REALLY easily faked). 2) It allows the recipient