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Date:      Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:02:03 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jason <jason@jason-n3xt.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: I was rooted using telnet
Message-ID:  <20010930160203.A43149@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109302239160.10365-100000@jason-n3xt.org>; from jason@jason-n3xt.org on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:43:24PM %2B0000
References:  <20010930101201.C98775@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109302239160.10365-100000@jason-n3xt.org>

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On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:43:24PM +0000, Jason wrote:
> Yes I did see it on my daily reports AFTER it happened.  They only had
> approx 4-5 hours on my box.  Between the time I went to bed and woke
> up.  When I get up and get to my box the frist thing I do is check to see
> who is on.  I saw to unauthoried users (1 and 11).  One of them was
> running a BNC for irc and the other was just idle.  There were 2 other
> users created as well (tmp and asaf).  I immediatly killall'ed them,
> turned off telnet in inetd.conf and added the telnet port to my firewall.
>=20
> I have since examined the contents of their home dirs they created.  The
> did in fact use a buffer overflow exploit.  A couple of people have
> requested it.. once I have time (I have a lot going on at work) I'll send
> the code and compiled script to the reputable requesters.

Please send it to security-officer@FreeBSD.org.  We aren't aware of
any outstanding vulnerabilities in telnetd.  Perhaps that wasn't
actually the route they used to get into the system, or perhaps
there's something else at work here.

Kris

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