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Date:      Mon, 06 May 2002 17:02:20 -0400
From:      "Charles M. Richmond" <cmr@iisc.com>
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Telnet Exploit 
Message-ID:  <200205062102.RAA22182@koibito.iisc.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 May 2002 13:25:03 PDT." <20020506132502.D59402@xor.obsecurity.org> 

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> > May  5 16:27:45 cx17105-b /kernel: ipfw: 4000 Accept TCP
> > 211.234.111.226:58981 68**.**.**:23 in via ep0
> > May  5 16:27:46 cx17105-b /kernel: ipfw: 4000 Accept TCP
> > 211.234.111.226:59085 68.**.**.**:23 in via ep0
> > May  5 16:27:47 cx17105-b /kernel: ipfw: 4000 Accept TCP
> > 211.234.111.226:59086 **.**.**:23 in via ep0
> > 
> > Im running stable what gives???? The worst part was I only had 
Telnet
> > enabled for 3 hours....

> Why do you think you were exploited?  The above only shows people
> connecting to the port.  If you don't want people doing that, don't
> allow them to.

Maybe he was and maybe he wasn't exploited, but 211.234.xxx.xxx is
a block of addresses in Korea that are used by so many spammers
that we block out the entire range. It is likely that someone
was looking for a machine to hijack for spam generation.

Charles

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