And in addition to patching up... (Always the best move no matter what.)
I've read where going into /tmp and doing

touch bugtaq bugtraq.c  

chmod 400 bugtraq bugtraq.c

 Seems to fool the program into thinking this is an already cracked box
(Havent proof this works but a little extra precaution always makes me
feel better.)

James


On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 17:42, Jeffrey Twu wrote:
> (sorry, inserted carriage returns below)
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
>         A web server at work got cracked on Sunday, and it looks like
> they used the SSL hole.  The bad person left a .tar.gz file in a
> directory, and we did a google search on the filename, and voila -- it
> was a script (uploaded Sep 17) that exploited the vulnerability.
> 
>         I heard about the SSL vulnerability before our server was
> cracked, and did some reading.  I didn't patch, because of:
> 
> http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/expert/2002-09/msg00588.php
> 
> The paragraph where they wrote Linux-Mandrake 8.2 was not vulnerable
> ... well, maybe they were referring to it with the openssl -2.3mdk
> patch.
> 
>         So, patch up, even if you read something that says "this is
> not vulnerable", as you may be taking it out of context, or they may
> be wrong.  As of Sep 17 at least, there are automated tools for script
> kiddies that will exploit the hole.
> 
>         Here's the 8.2 security page:
> 
> http://www.mandrake.com/en/security/mdk-updates.php3?dis=8.2
> 
>         I assume this is the right one to install:
> 
> http://www.mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-046-1.php?dis=8.2
> (That gives you the filename; I assume you click on FTP server mirrors
> and find a mirror to actually download it.  I haven't really used
> Mandrake's auto-update tools.)
> 
>         There is a longer discussion here:
> 
> http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/expert/2002-09/
> (search for openssl)
> 
> Jeffrey Twu
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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