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Date:      Sat, 29 Sep 2001 16:19:26 -0600 (MDT)
From:      FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
To:        Jason <jason@jason-n3xt.org>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: I was rooted using telnet
Message-ID:  <20010929161826.H54382-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109292110500.82213-100000@jason-n3xt.org>

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Were you running a ver of FreeBSD prior to July 23, 2001? Versions prior
to July 23 had a remotely rootable telnetd as per
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:49.telnetd.v1.1.asc

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Jason wrote:

> Hello:
>
> A couple of days ago I was rooted by someone using a telnet exploit.  I
> have been cvsup'ing my sources regularly and was using 4.4-RC at the
> time.  I've since moved to 4.4-STABLE.  It looks like they used some kind
> of script.  I still have it if anyone wants it.  Since then I have turned
> off telnet in inetd and blocked the port with a firewall.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how a person could do this?  I looks like this
> script just tries to move a lot of data for a long period of time.
>
> ---
> Jason
> jason@jason-n3xt.org
>
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