From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 30 9:50:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (CDR22-173.accesscable.net [24.138.22.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A905C37B401; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAUHoUu56428; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:50:30 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:50:26 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Stefano Riva , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD hacked? In-Reply-To: <20001128215508.A94876@citusc17.usc.edu> 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 Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:47:16AM +0100, Stefano Riva wrote: > > At 16.13 28/11/00 -0800, you wrote: > > >Yes, I can confirm this happened last night. We were immediately > > >informed by those who did it including how it was achieved. The > > >penetration mechanism was not a vulnerability in FreeBSD and was > > >corrected immediately. > > > > Could you give us some detail about the mechanism used? > > Not at this time. I'll release more details in a few days once we've > had time to look things over better. so, for the next few days, there is a possibility that the rest of us are as vulnerable? *raised eyebrow* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message