Re: New Active Exploit: memcached on port 11211 UDP & TCP being exploited for reflection attacks

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

The defaults for Zimbra seem to be to listen everywhere all the time. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

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From: "Randy Bush" <randy () psg com> 
To: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com> 
Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog () nanog org> 
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2018 4:38:05 PM 
Subject: Re: New Active Exploit: memcached on port 11211 UDP & TCP being exploited for reflection attacks 

> this is sort of why openbsd listens only on 127.0.0.1/::1 by default, 
> right? it's the only sane choice for 'fresh out of the box' network 
> daemons: "Yes, it's running, yes I can healthcheck it locally to prove 
> it's running" 

amidst all the hysterical pontification, i am having trouble finding any 
release which has, by default, a port 11211 listener on any interface. 

randy