Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays
Oh and btw, unless you have another different issue you are reporting,
this well documented behavior has been reported before:
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/266688832/article.pl
*grumble*
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Penned by Todd T. Fries on 20080510 13:04.42, we have:
| Yes this is very frustrating.
|
| The details are not so hard to guess. Unless this post is different,
| anyone can send an email to a nonexistent user at a google service and
| they accept it and bounce back to the envelope recipient. *sigh*.
|
| We are going back to the stone age by copying qmails default stupidity.
|
| This is doing very much harm.
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| I would even go as far as to say that Google is making a business case for
| its latest purchase, postini, in a very evil way, every second this proble
| goes unsolved.
|
| *sigh*
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| Penned by Michael Scheidell on 20080510 9:55.32, we have:
| |
| |
| | > From: <pablo.ximenes@xxxxxxx>
| | > Date: 7 May 2008 20:37:46 -0000
| | > To: <bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| | > Subject: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays
| | >
| | >
| | > Vulnerability Report:
| | >
| | > As part of our recent work on the trust hierarchy that exists among email
| | > providers throughout the Internet, we have uncovered a serious security
flaw
| | > in Ggoogle's free email service, Gmail.
| | >
| | > Disclosure:
| | > We have contacted Google about this issue and are waiting for their
position
| | > before releasing further details.
| | >
| |
| | Don't hold our breath.. I have tried to get them to close this very hole for
| | maybe a year now.
| |
| | (see/'google' for posts in bugtraq and spamassassin users group showing
| | headers from unrelated domains sending spam through google mail servers..
| | They ignore the emails to abuse@xxxxxxxxxx)
| |
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