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Date:      Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:41:14 +0200
From:      Nevermind <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Important!! Vulnerability in standard ftpd
Message-ID:  <20001201124114.I2185@nevermind.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20001201022909.A44090@citusc17.usc.edu>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 02:29:09AM -0800
References:  <20001201122124.H2185@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20001201022909.A44090@citusc17.usc.edu>

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Hello, Kris Kennaway!

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 02:29:09AM -0800, you wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:21:24PM +0200, Nevermind wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > The parallel thread are discussing suspicious 
> >  drwxr-xr-x ftp/staff         0 Jul 31 00:04 2000 incoming/*
> > dirs. I'm 100% sure that it is hack. I've been hacked few month ago this way.
> > (with standard ftpd)
> > 
> > First I've found incoming/~tmp./ dir.
> > Then I've found suspicious process called "supa" (it may vary, I think).
> > I don't exactly remember how I found directory in which ls -la said:
> > ls: .: No such file or directory.
> > 
> > This hack corrupts filesystem to make it's datadirs invisible.
> > fsck in single mode severeal times helps.
> > 
> > It is ttyp* and ttyv* sniffer, logger, password cracker.
> > Please, check it out!
> 
> Check what out? Probably your machine has some other vulnerability
> which was leveraged. You have given us nothing here beyond showing
> that your ftp server has a world writable directory.
I cannot find now files I've found few month ago.
You should contact better man, who had found ~tmp. dirs in his incoming (it is
in parallel thread).

He surely can find hidden files using fsck.
He should look afair in /var/games/

-- 
Alexandr P. Kovalenko	http://nevermind.kiev.ua/
NEVE-RIPE


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