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Date:      Sun, 08 Nov 1998 14:21:16 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Security <security@tasam.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: port 1080 scans 
Message-ID:  <199811082121.OAA20841@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Nov 1998 15:10:58 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.981108150950.14310A-100000@tasam.com> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981108150950.14310A-100000@tasam.com>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.981108150950.14310A-100000@tasam.com>
Security writes: 
: I've noticed our socks5 dumping core quite often. It's stopped now, but
: about a week ago it was acting up.

The socks folks fixed a security hole (usual buffer overrun) in socks5
1.0r5 or so.  I'd upgrade to the latest socks if you haven't already.
The latest FreeBSD port of socks5 has this fix in it.  The core dumps
may indicate that you are under attack and the attacker are Script
|<ids that don't know you aren't running Linux.

Warner

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