[CentOS] Apache Security

Thu Jun 22 22:02:20 UTC 2006
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> Hello, I have a server running CentOS 4.3 with all the latest updates.
> The server in question has been hacked by spammers a few times.  The
> details of the hack have been basically the same every time.  I find
> some directory created by the apache user account in /tmp.  The new
> directory contains an html file, and a list of email addresses to spam
> and a perl script that spams all those email addresses with the html file.

sounds like scripts and bad code on the web-doc-root being exploited.

consder enabling SELinux. this is the sort of thing that selinux was
meant to prevent, and does a very good job of it.

-KB
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