full-disclosure - Automated ssh scanning

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From: GEisenhaur at Cisco.com (Gerry Eisenhaur)
Subject: Automated ssh scanning

Yea I boned it, I missed the point. For some reason (read: lack of sleep 
and food), I miss-read/assumed that admin was an admin...stupid me...

/gerry


Tig wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:43:47 -0400
> Gerry Eisenhaur <GEisenhaur@...co.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am confused, you said you knew about some SSH scanning going on,
>>then set up those accounts on a box. Now you are curious way that box
>>got rooted?
>>
>>Maybe I am missing something, but it seems you already have a pretty 
>>good assumption of why it got rooted.
>>
>>The software, as you seem to know, is a few exploits, a backdoor and 
>>some IRC stuff(bot and proxy).
>>
>>/gerry
>>
> 
> 
> I think you did miss the point (which was a very good one). Basically,
> once you have unprivileged access to a currently patched Woody box, you
> can quickly gain root access.
> 
> I would love to see this tested against other version of Linux and *BSD
> with default (and updated) installations. Anyone have a spare box and a
> few hours?
> 
> -Tig
> 
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