Re: Suspicious Mail

Doug Davis (doug@seas.smu.edu)
Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:16:53 -0600 (CST)

> 
> Hello !!
> 
> A couple of days back, we at teh EUI in Madrid receive this thing....
> 
> I'm not sure what is it.... could it be a probing for the recent bug of
> identd in sendmail, or something like this...
> 
> My system is a SunOS 4.1.1. 
> 
> All ideas will be wellcome, 

its telling you your .signature is too big. ;-)


> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Escuela     ########    ###    ###    ###     David Guerrero Tostado  
>  Universitaria  ########    ###    ###    ###          Colaborador
>       de        ###         ###    ###    ###    Centro de Calculo E.U.I.
>   Informatica   ########    ###    ###    ###             ---- 
>        -        ########    ###    ###    ###   e-mail : ccdavid@eui.upm.es  
>   Universidad   ###         ###    ###    ###   tlf (work): +34 1 562 69 00
>   Politecnica   ########    ##########    ###                  (ext. 309)  
>     Madrid      ########    ##########    ###   tlf (home): +34 1 647 38 70
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 



Actually its an attempt to exploit one of the various sendmail
holes.  Get the latest version of sendmail from the net (or your
vendor)