Re: resolved Re: should i publish a list of cracked machines?

[Kevin Houle <kjh () cert org>]

--On Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:39:21 -0400 Jim Mercer <jim () reptiles org> 
wrote:

> my suspicions and some things to look for:
>
> - boxes were comprimised using the buffer overflow in telnetd
> (speculation)

The CERT/CC is aware of some level of automated exploitation of
the recently described telnetd vulnerability. If folks have yet
to patch systems for that particular vulnerability, it would be
a good thing to spend time doing. We've seen it used to deploy
DDoS-capable tools, for example.

More info on the vulnerability at:

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/745371

Kevin

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