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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 1996 12:45:12 -0700 (MST)
From:      Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
To:        taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Cc:        pst@shockwave.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: User creating root-owned directories?
Message-ID:  <199602101945.MAA12583@terra.aros.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960210095956.17721M-100000@zip.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at Feb 10, 96 11:36:15 am

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Lo and behold, Brian Tao once said:

>     I'll perform a more detailed scan for setuid and setgid programs
> today then.  A lot of our users run setuid CGI scripts (PHP tools, a
> Web page logging package)... the hacker may have named a setuid
> program after one of the PHP scripts to hide it from scrutiny.
> Probably a good time to compare MD5 signatures on the system binaries
> too... *sigh*.

   From the way the filename looks, it's almost tempting to say that 
someone got in through a poorly configured cgi-bin script of some type.  
Do you have setuid cgis lying around that might use user-input for 
generating a command line?  (The "I got in ; ls" is what suggests it..)

  -Dave Andersen

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