full-disclosure - Fwd: TCP Port 42 port scans? What the heck over...

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From: wastedimage at gmail.com (wastedimage)
Subject: Fwd: TCP Port 42 port scans? What the heck over...

I'm just curious if its moved past the scanning phase and someone is
actively trying to exploit a box.  A quick look at any traffic would
answer this.

image

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:18:47 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
<Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:33:59 CST, wastedimage said:
> > can anyone provide me with a traffic sample of this?  I would really
> > like to see if this is the actual exploit or just a script kiddy
> > trying his little heart out.
>
> What's this '*THE* actual exploit' stuff? These things are rarely unique ;)
>
> And how do you count "script kiddy with *some other* actual exploit that
> happens to have the wrong offset for the SP you happen to be running"?
>
>
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