MailScanner was attacked by DOS and deletes message body

yuwang yuwang at cs.fsu.edu
Wed Apr 10 18:42:01 UTC 2019


Yes, that's the one I used to patch MailScanner.conf and perl script and 
module.

Thanks for providing the workaround.

James

On 2019-04-10 14:36, Marcelo Machado wrote:
> Hello everyone. Look at this.
> 
> https://github.com/MailScanner/v5/pull/367
> 
> Marcelo
> 
> Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 10:50, Yu Wang <yuwang at cs.fsu.edu>
> escreveu:
> 
>> Mark,
>> 
>> It appears MailScanner either didn't save it or something caused the
>> message to be removed. I cannot find it anywhere under
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/.
>> 
>> I updated MailScanner last night to 5.1.3-2 and patched perl scripts
>> for the ignore denial of service workaround. Hopefully it will fix
>> the message body deletion issue.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MailScanner
>> <mailscanner-bounces+yuwang=cs.fsu.edu at lists.mailscanner.info> On
>> Behalf Of Mark Sapiro
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 1:01 PM
>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> Subject: Re: MailScanner was attacked by DOS and deletes message
>> body
>> 
>> On 4/9/19 9:25 AM, Yu Wang wrote:
>>> 
>>> MailScanner was attacked by a Denial Of Service attack, and has
>>> therefore deleted this part of the message. Please contact your
>> e-mail
>>> providers for more information if you need it, giving them the
>> whole
>>> of this report. Attack in:
>>> 
>> 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/141905/1841B12012B.A4390/nmsg-141905-2
>>> 0.html
>>> 
>>> There was no directory /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/141905/ on
>> the
>>> server (about 5 hours later). I searched ‘1841B12012B.A4390’
>> under
>>> /var/spool/MailScanner and /var/spool/postfix/ and found nothing.
>> 
>> If MailScanner saved the message, it would be in
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20190408/1841B12012B.A4390/message
>> or possibly
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20190408/spam/1841B12012B.A4390.
>> '20190408' is the date.
>> 
>> --
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>> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B.
>> Dylan
>> 
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