RE: Large increase in TCP/554 (rtsp) scans

["Compton, Rich" <RCompton () chartercom com>]

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?date=2003-10-28

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Murphy [mailto:gilmour_37 () yahoo com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 1:01 PM
To: Ben Nelson
Cc: incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Large increase in TCP/554 (rtsp) scans


Yes, there was an exploit against the RealNetworks streaming servers (both
8.x and Helix Universal Server 9.x).  Info and fixes here:

http://service.real.com/help/faq/security/rootexploit091103.html

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Ben Nelson wrote:

||In the last two days I have seen a large increase in scans destined for
||port 554, which is traditionally the rtsp (Real Time Streaming Protocol)
||port.  These scans are coming from a large number of different hosts
||from many different ISP's.  These scans have hit two different class C
||IP blocks of mine that are geographically dispersed and owned by two
||different service providers.
||
||I haven't seen any recent exploits for any streaming media products.  Or
||are any other known back doors configured to listen on this port?  I
||don't have any servers running any of these services any way, so it
||seems like blind scanning.
||
||Has anyone else seen a similar increase?  Or does anyone know if a new
||DDOS for any of the streaming media servers has popped up?
||
||Thanks,
||--Ben
||
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