From owner-freebsd-security Sun Nov 8 22:59:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19285 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 22:59:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19280 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 22:59:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA23265; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:58:45 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:58:45 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Security cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: port 1080 scans In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Security wrote: > I've noticed our socks5 dumping core quite often. It's stopped now, but > about a week ago it was acting up. > Port 1080 scans are very often just that - people looking for a misconfigured Socks server that allows them free access. > On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > In our campus network we are increasingly observing port > > scan attacks from outer sites on port 1080 (socks). > > > > Does anyone know of any recent security hole related to this service > > on any platform (possibly linux - but I want to be prepared wrt FreeBSD). > > > > -- > > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message