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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:26:40 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: "Christopher J. Umina" <FJU@Fritzilldo.com>
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Subject: Re: rcp.statd
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:37:21PM -0500, Christopher J. Umina wrote:
> Hello,=20
>=20
>     I'm getting an error that looks like this on my 4.1 BSD system.
> rcp.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat: ^X=3Dsomejunk ^PM-^PM... =20
> What does this mean to me?

It's been explained multiple times at length in the mailing list
archives, but the short answer is 'nothing, it's an attempted Linux
exploit'.

Kris

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