[OT]Fake emails being as "failure to deliver"

[Eli Cantu]

so are you saying that by checking my email from any workstation using any
client (browser or dedicated imap/pop), because "they will all do the same
thing", that this exploit will hit the connected smtp smtp/pop/imap server?

e

(switching to top posting now, cause some ppl have a problem following trends)




Quoting "J.T.Blaylock" <jblaylock@mymacmail.com>:

> PHP is server side. It has nothing to do with browsers, so they will
> all do the same thing.
>
> J.T.
> On Jun 9, 2004, at 10:06 PM, Eli wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:21, Norberto Quintanar wrote:
> >> If you get an email message similiar to the one below don't click on
> >> it.  It's part of a malicious spammers idea to infect your computer
> >> and get your password.  It exploits a flaw/ bug in php.  The PHP-Nuke
> >> contains an exploitable SQL injection vulnerability that can be used
> >> by attackers to cause the system to execute arbitrary SQL statements.
> >
> > so if i'm reading my email from my freebsd _workstation_, and happened
> > to be using konqueror or evolution, and i foolishly click on the link -
> > what will happen?
> >
> > is this thing going to try and execute arbitrary sql queries using php
> > on my local workstation (freebsd)?
> >
> > i'm not running mysql or postgressql on my workstation. is the php
> > script even going to get executed for that matter? what browsers are
> > vulnerable, i wonder. (do they all execute php the same way?)
> >
> > what specific situation is this really exploiting? someone who is
> > surfing the web from their server?
> >
> > just wondering.
> >
> > e
> >
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