On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:41:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:41:18 +0200, Richard Verwayen said: > > > You are right about the passwords, but guest is only a unprivileged > > account as you may have on many prodruction machines. But they managed > > to become root on this machine due to a kernel(?) exploit! > > Or an exploit of any of the set-UID root or runs-as-root programs on the system. > > VeNoMouS posted ID's of most of the kits you found. > > He didn't ID xpl.tar.gz pr psybnc.tgz - anybody recognize those? I'm guessing > one of the following: > psybnc is an IRC "bounce" server. It's a form of proxy that allows remote connections. Fairly popular as I understand it. Drop it on a compromised host. Have it connect to your favorite [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC server, and proxy through it.
Assuming the tarball really is psybnc... Don't recognize xpl.tar.gz Cheers, L4J > 1) Debian Woody isn't patched for the kernel do_brk or ptrace holes yet. > > 2) One of the two as-yet-unID'ed kits has some other exploit that Woody hasn't > been patched against. > > 3) You haven't found all the kits yet. :) > > But as noted by others, if they can get a local 'guest' shell, they're already 95% > of the way to root.... _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
