Re: [hlds_linux] Garry's Mod server admins: be alert to a Lua rcon exploit currently making the rounds

2014-04-22 Thread Valentin G.
I guess the shadow update has fixed the exploit now? It definitely looks like they didn't go quite far with the exploit (we were hit by it aswell). I assume they downloaded the server.cfg to get a hold of the rcon password, correct? And there probably is no trace of any of this happening. Would

Re: [hlds_linux] Garry's Mod server admins: be alert to a Lua rcon exploit currently making the rounds

2014-04-22 Thread Ryan Kistner
A fix was released for this issue. I'm not completely satisfied with their resolution, but if you're paranoid there are a couple of mitigations worth considering: 1. Using a strict whitelist such as: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=142249 (currently broken, no plans to update

Re: [hlds_linux] Garry's Mod server admins: be alert to a Lua rcon exploit currently making the rounds

2014-04-21 Thread Valentin G.
So was this used to obtain rcon passwords in other games such as TF2? On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Tyrone parablac...@gmail.com wrote: The exploit works on all source based games according to Garry. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:11 PM, wickedplayer494 wickedplayer...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [hlds_linux] Garry's Mod server admins: be alert to a Lua rcon exploit currently making the rounds

2014-04-21 Thread Kyle Sanderson
Yes, this unfortunately impacted a lot of European CS:S servers (L4D(2) and other engines will forever be compromised). Based on the scope, everything the server's user was running as is compromised. However, the running guess is that people were still only after quick wins; such as changing the

Re: [hlds_linux] Garry's Mod server admins: be alert to a Lua rcon exploit currently making the rounds

2014-04-19 Thread Tyrone
The exploit works on all source based games according to Garry. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:11 PM, wickedplayer494 wickedplayer...@gmail.com wrote: http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1386818 If your clients are complaining about *cough* spam or similar through Steam chat, this is what's

[hlds_linux] Garry's Mod server admins: be alert to a Lua rcon exploit currently making the rounds

2014-04-18 Thread wickedplayer494
http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1386818 If your clients are complaining about *cough* spam or similar through Steam chat, this is what's causing it. It may be wise to just completely kill your server until the Facepunch folks release an update to fix this (even though it's 3 AM in the