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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 01:46:16 -0500
From:      Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>
To:        jacks@sage-american.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intruder attempts?
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20011210014602.04020258@mail.enterit.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20011209075850.0101cb38@mail.sage-american.com>

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At 07:58 12.09.2001 -0600, 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:
>
><snip/>
>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
></snip>
>

This is a bad thing.  This is somebody attempting to use a buffer olverflow 
exploit against your rpc services.  If you don't need them, I suggest you 
turn portmap off.  That means that if you don't want or need people 
rsh'ing, rcp'ing, etc into your box, turn off portmap.

- Jim


>Best regards,
>Jack L. Stone,
>Server Admin
>
>Sage-American
>http://www.sage-american.com
>jacks@sage-american.com
>
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- Jim

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