On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Jeff Hansen wrote:
> some buffer to gain a root shell. This exploit is either in inetd or
> identd (I am thinking it is in inetd, because identd is run as
> 'nobody'). If anyone would like to check out inetd for any holes,
I'm surprised that it would be in inetd, since ine
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> On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Dave G. wrote:
>
> >
> >> So, someone has a program that connects to the 'auth' port and overflows
> >> some buffer to gain a root shell. This exploit is either in inetd or
> >> identd (I am thinking it is in inetd, because identd is run as
> >> 'n
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Dave G. wrote:
>
>> So, someone has a program that connects to the 'auth' port and overflows
>> some buffer to gain a root shell. This exploit is either in inetd or
>> identd (I am thinking it is in inetd, because identd is run as
>> 'nobody'). If anyone would like to check
> So, someone has a program that connects to the 'auth' port and overflows
> some buffer to gain a root shell. This exploit is either in inetd or
> identd (I am thinking it is in inetd, because identd is run as
> 'nobody'). If anyone would like to check out inetd for any holes,
> please do so a
This message is important to anyone running RedHat Linux 5.0!! There is
a serious security problem that I don't believe anyone knows about!!
I recently had someone in Moscow, Russia, gain unauthorized access to my
system via the auth port. Here is the line from netstat (he hacked my
ne
