Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:11:49 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@chain.iafrica.com> To: joe@pavilion.net Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP compromise. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970909200429.4343Z-100000@chain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.970909094420.6232G-100000@dfw.dfw.net>
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>Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:43:46 +0100 >From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> >To: security@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: FTP compromise. >CONSEQUENCES: These vary. On my FreeBSD 2.2 box I was able to eat up > all memory and swap memory until the kernel spewed > "out of swap space" errors and killed a few processes. Just tried this on my 2.2-STABLE box now; I'm running wu-ftpd-2.4.2-beta-13, and after a minute, was nowhere near consuming all CPU time or memory. (output from top) 17745 root 98 0 772K 432K RUN 1:32 67.57% 67.52% ftpd Five minutes later, nothing different happened. 17745 root 105 0 772K 432K RUN 5:05 69.96% 69.96% ftpd --- Khetan Gajjar | khetan@iafrica.com or khetan@os.org.za http://chain.iafrica.com/~khetan | PGP : finger khetan@chain.iafrica.com UUNET Internet Africa Support | FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org MOTD : In a world without fences who needs Gates?
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