Re: [gentoo-security] Strange occurrence of sendmail and disk I/O in background....

[Javier Barrio]

>     I found vulnerabilities associated with a lower version of
> sendmail but none with the version I've installed right now.
>
>     Any suggestions, ideas, or explanations are welcomed.

It seems you could be owned by someone, maybe due to a combination of a
web-app vulnerability which led to an apache shell which led to a
kernel exploit execution, which led to root, which led to executing
whatever, in that case, making your machine to be a spammer zombie or
so. You know, the usual shit nowadays.

Run the usual tools, chkrootkit, rkhunter, etc.

Good luck.
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