Re: Shell Shocking

2001-02-13 Thread Van
Rolf Hopkins wrote: > > What you have just described means that database permissions have not been > set up correctly and your ISP has left himself wide open for all kinds of > attacks and I'm not just talking about attacks on the database itself but > also attacks on the whole system. Ie access

Re: Shell Shocking

2001-02-13 Thread Rolf Hopkins
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "clay bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "mysql@lists. mysql. com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 21:18 Subject: Re: Shell Shocking > Problem is that most ISPs can't afford a competent DBA...;( > > clay

Re: Shell Shocking

2001-02-13 Thread Mikel King
Absolutely this is nothing short of bad adminingIbet you could scag in their passwd file and has root access in short order...;( And of course the ISP will blame mysql if anything happens to them though...lazy bad ISP cheers, mikel Donald Korth wrote: > Hello > > The hosting company

Re: Shell Shocking

2001-02-13 Thread Mikel King
Problem is that most ISPs can't afford a competent DBA...;( clay bond wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Donald Korth wrote: > > > The hosting company has given me a user name and passwd . When i log into my own >site thro' a telnet session i 'm able to view all the databases created in the server

Re: Shell Shocking

2001-02-13 Thread clay bond
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Donald Korth wrote: > The hosting company has given me a user name and passwd . When i log into my own >site thro' a telnet session i 'm able to view all the databases created in the server >that includes DBs not created by me . I also did a "USE DB" command to connect t

Re: Shell Shocking

2001-02-12 Thread Colin Faber
Donald, Poor administration of the server or incorrect privileges assigned to your user account. Donald Korth wrote: > Hello > > The hosting company has given me a user name and passwd . When i log into my own >site thro' a telnet session i 'm able to view all the databases created in t

Shell Shocking

2001-02-12 Thread Donald Korth
Hello The hosting company has given me a user name and passwd . When i log into my own site thro' a telnet session i 'm able to view all the databases created in the server that includes DBs not created by me . I also did a "USE DB" command to connect to a DB that wasn't mine . Also "Sho