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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2001 03:50:08 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Attempts to overflow rpc.statd
Message-ID:  <20010823035008.A96330@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010823195855.A77982@atdot.dotat.org>; from newton@atdot.dotat.org on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:58:55PM %2B0930
References:  <20010823195855.A77982@atdot.dotat.org>

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:58:55PM +0930, Mark Newton wrote:
> I've been seeing these in syslog for the last week or so.  Has anyone
> else run across them?
>=20
> It looks like a buffer overflow attempt on rpc.statd, but since there
> aren't any FreeBSD advisories about it I'm guessing that the script
> kiddies are hitting on it at random without necessarily knowing about
> what kind of architecture or OS they're trying to attack.
>=20
> Does it look familiar to anyone else?

Yes, it's an old Linux vulnerability.

Kris

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