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|> From: Kevin Houle [mailto:[email protected]] |> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:42 AM |> |> --On Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:39:21 -0400 Jim Mercer |> <[email protected]> |> wrote: |> |> > my suspicions and some things to look for: |> > |> > - boxes were comprimised using the buffer overflow in telnetd |> > (speculation) |> |> The CERT/CC is aware of some level of automated exploitation of |> the recently described telnetd vulnerability. If folks have yet |> to patch systems for that particular vulnerability, it would be |> a good thing to spend time doing. We've seen it used to deploy |> DDoS-capable tools, for example. |> |> More info on the vulnerability at: |> |> http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/745371 quick patch for this vulnerability #! /bin/sh rm -f `whereis in.telnetd` rm -f `whereis in.ftpd` /etc/rc.d/init.d/ssh-server start
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