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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:39:53 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Odd log entries...an attempted breakin?
Message-ID:  <39C974F9.210D0F41@urx.com>
References:  <39C8C50C.CA929D8C@glue.umd.edu> <20000920180446.B81946@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:09:16AM -0400, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> > For the last week or so I've been seeing the following entries in
> > /var/log/messages:
> >
> > Sep 17 01:17:11 nbf-27 rpc.statd: Invalid hostname to sm_mon:
> > ^D÷ÿ¿^D÷ÿ¿^E÷ÿ¿^E÷ÿ¿^F÷ÿ¿^F÷ÿ¿^G÷ÿ¿^G÷ÿ¿%08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x
> > %08x %08x
> 
> Someone is trying to exploit a root hole in the Linux rpc.statd.
> ou don't have anything to worry about running FreeBSD here :-)

Is that what the Tribal Flood people are doing or is this something
different?

Kent

> 
> However, firewalling is always a good idea.
> 
> Kris
> 
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