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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:58:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net>
To:        "G.P. de Boer" <g.p.de.boer@st.hanze.nl>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: strange inetd.conf entry
Message-ID:  <20011101095342.I79615-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011101154627.01f2e3f0@thedarkside.nl>

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> >I have that sinking feeling. I discovered this line at the end of
> >inetd.conf on one of our servers:
> >
> >dlip        stream  tcp     nowait  root    /bin/sh sh -i
> >
> Take the box down, do a reinstall and don't run known exploitable
> daemons. The shell acquired using the above line is useable. [snip]
>
> Hope the box wasn't really doing anything important, because it's rooted
> for sure.

Thanks for the info, GP. I wonder how they got in to begin with. In any
event, it was only doing nameservice and had no sensitive files. We are
reloading it today.	- Ralph



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