Stefan,
I would be interested in information about your case.  We had an old node with 
some outdated CGI stuff (including mapserv) that was compromized a few weeks 
back, via what appeared to be a CGI issue.  We had php in the cgi-bin directory 
(5.2.13) as well as mapserver 5.6.3.  As good fortune had it, I was in the 
process of migrating stuff from the directories on this old node to a new node 
at the exact same time as the intruders entry, and managed to capture a few 
lines from the log before the intruder wiped the logs clean on exit.  

It was a very odd experience, I found a file named perl-cgi in the cgi-bin 
directory as I was listing the cgi-bin contents to verify the mapserv location. 
 I did a quick grep of the logs for the file and found the call to that program 
with a password argument, and copied it to email our sysadmin guy, by the time 
that I shut down httpd and returned to scouring the logs, the logs had been 
wiped.  In other words, I was lucky enough to be watching it go down in real 
time.

Anyhow, we can discuss this off-list if it is not verified that mapserv may 
have been involved - or on list if there are any others who have had a similar 
experience in recent times.

/r/b
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