[100136] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Hack attempts!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Wed Nov 18 16:46:25 1998
From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:44:41 -0800 (PST)
Reply-To: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com
In-Reply-To: <402EA738A9EDD11183BA0060976194065C65@h24-64-231-158.cg.wave.shaw.ca> from "David I Wolf" at Nov 18, 98 09:50:02 am
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> I have been getting a LOT of hack attempts lately: Can anyone
> give me some info on the type of hacks? Here are the logs of the event..
>
I think I've read something on this before... At any rate, it seems
like the perpetrator is attempting to exploit a potential buffer
overflow problem that might give him root access. Check the messages
in the redhat-list with SECURITY: as titles and www.cert.org and
make your system more secure.
> David Wolf
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