Re: TRG vger.timpanogas.org hacked

["Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:30:51AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:05:34AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > is curious as to how these folks did this.  They exploited BIND 8.2.3
> > > to get in and logs indicated that someone was using a "back door" in 

> > Bind runs as root.

> > > We are unable to determine just how they got in exactly, but they 
> > > kept trying and created an oops in the affected code which allowed 
> > > the attack to proceed.  

> > Are you sure they didnt in fact simply screw up live patching the kernel to
> > cover their traces

> Could have.  The kernel is unable to dismount the root volume when booted.
> I can go through the drive and remove confidential stuffd and just leave 
> the system intact and post the entire system image to my ftp server. 

	This would be a good thing for those of us involved in investigating
these sorts of things.  :-/

> I have changed all the passwords on the server, so what's there is no 
> big deal.  This server was public FTP and web/email, so nothing really 
> super "confidential" on it.  

> Jeff

	Mike
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