Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:47:44 -0600 From: Jon Dugan <jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu> To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Watch out for security on your machines and exploits! Message-ID: <20031204004744.GA1040@ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20031203234849.7238C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org>
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In addition there may be a vulnerability in rsync running in daemon mode. I received a forwarded email about this, so it is unverified at this time, but if you offer rsyncd access you may wish to monitor this. On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:48:49PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > There's definately a targeting of open source projects and infrastructure > machines going on. Another linux mirror has been compromised. There's > worrying developments on savannah.gnu.org, etc. > > Please take EXTRA care to watch your mirrors for 'funny stuff' and make damn > sure that you're fully up todate with patches. > > Being a cvsup*/ftp*/etc mirror means that you're going to be scanned and > probed. Especially now. > > Cheers, > -Peter > -- > Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com > "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hubs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hubs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Jon Dugan | Senior Network Engineer, NCSA Network Research jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu | 269 CAB, 605 E Springfield, Champaign, IL 61820 217-244-7715 | http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~jdugan/
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