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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:08:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Barrett Richardson <barrett@phoenix.aye.net>
To:        Beck David <dbeck@freesoft.hu>
Cc:        "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Strange things on my computer / Help
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9910290907070.1331-100000@phoenix.aye.net>
In-Reply-To: <1BD5A68BE9E8D211BBE8006094B9EB73E97C@netfinity.freesoft.hu>

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Beck David wrote:

> 
> This is the first time I write to the list, Big Hello To All,
> 
> 
> I administer a host on the Internet which basically doesn't really
> do anything. I installed some services like www,ftp,ssh,qmail
> / no big deal.
> 
> I started playing with this machine 10 month ago. Since that I found
> a handful of strange thingies:
> 
> - my wtmp files turn on each month, but after a short while allways
>  gets corrupted
> - if I run who, it doesn't show any user
> - if I run last, it shows a big pile of garbage
> - I filter out ICMP totally, which is OK for me
> - but the kernel complains in every 10 minutes for some _out_ going
>   ICMP packets, which goes to two hosts. I am absolutely sure
>   that nor me nor any of my programs has nothing to do with that hosts
> - when I found this I started to look for the program which generates
>   the ICMP packets but I didn't find anything
> - I checked the cron rules, but I didn't find anything
> - then I turned off the setuid bits from nearly every program on my
>   host including ping and traceroute, but didn't help
> 
> Do you guys suspect that my machine got exploited ? /I do, but I can't
> prove it./
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Thx, David.
> 

Are you running a 2.x sshd binary on a 3.x system?

-

Barrett



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