From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 09:20:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6062037B401 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 09:20:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9629F43F93 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 09:20:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h48GKQJR022405; Thu, 8 May 2003 11:20:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 11:20:26 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" Message-ID: <20030508162026.GN31032@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpc.statd odd log entry... invalid hostname? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 16:20:28 -0000 In the last episode (May 08), Dave [Hawk-Systems] said: > noticed the following during a log audit... anything to worry about? > > May 7 00:20:29 isp2 rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat: > ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%137x% > n%10x%n%192x%nM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM- Looks like an attempt to exploit http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-17.html . FreeBSD was never vulnerable. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com