[100166] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Hack attempts!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David S Edwards)
Wed Nov 18 17:37:17 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:31:45 -0800
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From: "David S Edwards" <David@california.net>
In-Reply-To: <402EA738A9EDD11183BA0060976194065C6C@h24-64-231-158.cg.wav
e.shaw.ca>
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At 03:07 PM 11/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I had all the latest RPM's installed.. EXCEPT for the latest syslogk rpm...
>(I'm running RH5.2).. Can someone tell me if the buffer overflow problem in
>syslog would have amounted to anything?
Well by the looks of your log file, this crack attempt was aimed at mountd
in the NFS server package to try to force a buffer overflow. As to whether
anyone gained access is another question.
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