RE: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-30 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Gregory Boehnlein wrote: It is a common misconception that the ESX Hypervisor is Linux based, but that is an urban legend. Is the ESX Hypervisor useful without the Linux layer? Then, to what extent do based on and depends on differ in the context of software? --paulj

Re: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-30 Thread Andre Gironda
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Paul Jakma p...@jakma.org wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Gregory Boehnlein wrote: It is a common misconception that the ESX Hypervisor is Linux based, but that is an urban legend. Is the ESX Hypervisor useful without the Linux layer? Then, to what extent do

Re: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-30 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Andre Gironda wrote: ESXi doesn't require much Linux (just busybox), but I think the point is that the VMkernel (the hypervisor) and the service console (Linux) are separate entities. The SC is really a VM, so it depends more on VMkernel than VMkernel depends on it. So

Re: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-30 Thread Daryl G. Jurbala
On Apr 30, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Paul Jakma wrote: Is the ESX Hypervisor useful without the Linux layer? Then, to what extent do based on and depends on differ in the context of software? I needed DR-DOS 3 to make NetWare 3.12 boot, but I wouldn't consider it to be based on DOS.

Re: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 09:33:06 pm Christopher Morrow wrote: That said there are a few 'network devices' which are linux based (not just Vyatta! :) ) o Cisco Guards o Arbor Peakflow (at least the X version) o some-route-optmization systems o dns/mail/ntp/blah widgets Add: Cisco Content

Re: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-29 Thread Nathan Ward
On 29/04/2009, at 3:25 PM, Nathan Ward wrote: On 29/04/2009, at 3:10 PM, Crooks, Sam wrote: Cisco ASA's appear to be linux under the hood based on watching versions of ASA804-3/12/19/23/31 boot on the console They are Linux, and run two copies of IOS simultaneously in a VM each. Erk,

Re: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-28 Thread andrew.wallace
Why are you alining yourself with a computer hacker? I thought you were trying to stop these guys releasing exploits in your line of work? Andrew On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org wrote: This is one of them mysterious and rare cases where a non router OS

Re: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-28 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:31 PM, andrew.wallace andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com wrote: Why are you alining yourself with a computer hacker? I thought you were trying to stop these guys releasing exploits in your line of work? it didn't look like he did (to me) On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM,

Re: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:31:04 BST, andrew.wallace said: Why are you alining yourself with a computer hacker? I thought you were trying to stop these guys releasing exploits in your line of work? Phrased differently: The horse has already left the barn, and Gadi is warning you that there's a

RE: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-28 Thread Crooks, Sam
-Original Message- From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:33 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: one shot remote root for linux? That said there are a few 'network devices' which are linux based (not just Vyatta

Re: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-28 Thread Nathan Ward
On 29/04/2009, at 3:10 PM, Crooks, Sam wrote: Cisco ASA's appear to be linux under the hood based on watching versions of ASA804-3/12/19/23/31 boot on the console They are Linux, and run two copies of IOS simultaneously in a VM each. Kind of like how VMWare ESX is Linux - technically it

Re: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-28 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Gadi Evron wrote: I asked him about it on IM, wondering if it is real: looks like that but requires a sctp app to be running And which sctcp transport utiltizing app pray tell do you commonly find running on linux based routers and network infrastructure?

RE: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-28 Thread Gregory Boehnlein
Cisco ASA's appear to be linux under the hood based on watching versions of ASA804-3/12/19/23/31 boot on the console They are Linux, and run two copies of IOS simultaneously in a VM each. Kind of like how VMWare ESX is Linux - technically it is, but you don't really treat it as such.