From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 9 6:50: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C42E37B419 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 06:50:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fB9EjM917920; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 09:45:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C137AB0.6090807@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 09:52:32 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intruder attempts? References: <3.0.5.32.20011209075850.0101cb38@mail.sage-american.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Check the archives. I believe this is an attept to use a security hole that existed at one time in the Linux version of NFS. To my knowledge, this attack has never been useful against FreeBSD. jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > I've noticed this often on the console of the server and appears to be > intruder attempts to login: This is just a snipet: > > > server1.net kernel log messages: > >>Dec 8 03:41:47 sage-one rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat: >> > ^X\M-w\M^?\M-?^X\M-w\M^?\M-?^Y\M-w\M^?\M-?^Y\M-w\M^?\M-?^Z\M-w\M^?\M-?^Z\M-w > \M^?\M-?^[\M-w\M^?\M-?^[\M-w\M^?\M-?%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%137x% > n%10x%n%192x%nM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^P > -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message