Re: TRG vger.timpanogas.org hacked

[Jeff V. Merkey]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:05:34AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > is curious as to how these folks did this.  They exploited BIND 8.2.3
> > to get in and logs indicated that someone was using a "back door" in 
> 
> Bind runs as root.
> 
> > We are unable to determine just how they got in exactly, but they 
> > kept trying and created an oops in the affected code which allowed 
> > the attack to proceed.  
> 
> Are you sure they didnt in fact simply screw up live patching the kernel to
> cover their traces

Could have.  The kernel is unable to dismount the root volume when booted.
I can go through the drive and remove confidential stuffd and just leave 
the system intact and post the entire system image to my ftp server. 

I have changed all the passwords on the server, so what's there is no 
big deal.  This server was public FTP and web/email, so nothing really 
super "confidential" on it.  

Jeff