[7771] in bugtraq
Re: News DoS using sendsys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew V. Kovalev)
Thu Aug 27 12:25:35 1998
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:25:12 +0400
Reply-To: "Andrew V. Kovalev" <avk@JET.MSK.SU>
From: "Andrew V. Kovalev" <avk@JET.MSK.SU>
X-To: rra@STANFORD.EDU
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <m3yasbwe2d.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU> from "Russ Allbery" at
"Aug 26, 98 03:52:58 pm"
Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Our newsserver (INN) all of a sudden gets several 100 'sendsys' requests
> > per day. The addresses of the people requesting the sendsys seem to be
>
> Just today, the same folks switched to using newgroups. Unfortunately,
Right now I'm receiving "version"... Machine running INN has a hundred of
/bin/sh's running... Aaarghh...
avk
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