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Date:      Thu, 9 Oct 2003 03:51:38 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unusual logcheck entry
Message-ID:  <20031009105138.GC7709@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <001c01c38e52$2ecdfd60$04fea8c0@moe>
References:  <001c01c38e52$2ecdfd60$04fea8c0@moe>

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On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:43:31AM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
> The following appeared in /var/log/messages in my daily logcheck report:
>=20
> Oct  8 20:38:47 curly rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat:
> ^X???^X???^Z???^Z???%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%62716x%hn%51859x%hnM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
> -^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^P
> Oct  8 20:38:47 curly /kernel: -^PM-^PM-^P
>=20
> At that time, I was sitting on the couch watching the Cubs play the
> Marlins.
> Any idea what this means?

This is an attempt to exploit an old Linux rpc.statd
vulnerability..see the mailing list archives for extensive discussion
a few years ago.

Kris

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