[Mailman-Users] any info on this reported exploit?

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 26 22:40:12 CET 2006


Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
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> 
> This is the mechanism of "Denial of Service".

Thank you Tokio for the very detailed info.

> Therefore, the site administrator should check the qfiles/shunt 
> directory and the logs/error file periodically.
> 
> Brad Knowls' Daily Status Report should help in this respect.  I really 
> want to rewrite it in python and include in the official cron jobs (if I 
> had enough time before the next release of mailman 2.2).
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1123383&group_id=103&atid=300103

Excellent addition to Mailman.  I presume this will wind up in the 
distribution one day?

-Jim P.





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