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Date:      Sun, 6 Jul 2003 22:43:10 -0400
From:      "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" <dave@hawk-systems.com>
To:        "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat
Message-ID:  <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNMEJMCBAC.dave@hawk-systems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030706231057.GA21037@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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>On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 02:37:36PM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote:
>> I received an answer to this before and it was that FreeBSD isn't
>vulnerable to
>> this type of attack, but the log entries persist in varrying degrees of
>> reoccurance.
>
>This is a FAQ.  It's an attempt to exploit an old Linux vulnerability.

thanks,  this I did know.  However searching the FreeBSD FAQ I didn't find any
reference to my two questions;

1) Is there a way to tell where it is coming from?

2) What is the intended result?

Thanks

Dave




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