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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:55:41 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@itouch.co.nz>
To:        Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rpc.statd weirdness?
Message-ID:  <20010117145541.A21642@itouchnz.itouch>
In-Reply-To: <200101162328.RAA08648@chrome.jdl.com>; from jdl@jdl.com on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:28:42PM -0600
References:  <200101162328.RAA08648@chrome.jdl.com>

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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:28:42PM -0600, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Can anyone give me a hint as to what might be causing an odd
> message in my /var/log/messages file that looks like this:
> 
>   Jan 12 00:28:11 chrome rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat: ^Xw^??^
>   Xw^??^Yw^??^Yw^??^Zw^??^Zw^??^[w^??^[w^??%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%2
>   36x%n%137x%n%10x%n%192x%n^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P
> 
> And there follows around 1000 ^P characters.

Looks like an hack attack attempt using portmapper by overflowing buffers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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