Re: weird messages in syslog

2001-11-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:49:21AM -0800, Jim McCloskey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've turned telnet off again. If anyone has any further advice, I'd be > really grateful, SSH clients are widely available for _any_ viable computer platform, from Mac to MVS. No need to risk your entire system

Re: LPRNG vulnerability [was Re: weird messages in syslog]

2001-11-21 Thread nate
Jim McCloskey said: > > I've not had to deal with such an exploit before, so I would really > appreciate any advice that's going. I've stopped the lprng daemon > for now, until I can tighten things up. depending on the box and it's uses most likely if it was mine i would reinstall. thats really t

LPRNG vulnerability [was Re: weird messages in syslog]

2001-11-21 Thread Jim McCloskey
SaDIKuZboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> it could be something as a backdoor or an arbitrary service ... try |> to : cron -l it shows u a table with binary called to be run, |> report it and let's see what's there :o) Thanks for your help. Maybe you meant crontab -l? But I'm pretty certain in any ca

Re: weird messages in syslog

2001-11-21 Thread SaDIKuZboy
Answer at bottom - Original Message - From: "Jim McCloskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:09 AM Subject: weird messages in syslog > > I have the following in syslog (and in /var/log/messages): > > Nov 20 01:18:12 localhost S

Re: weird messages in syslog

2001-11-21 Thread Jim McCloskey
"nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> looks like you might of been hit with a lprng exploit .. >> |> |> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/85002 |> |> hope your lprng is updated! Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I've occasionally been getting something similar. I think I've |> trac

Re: weird messages in syslog

2001-11-20 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:09:10PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I have the following in syslog (and in /var/log/messages): > > Nov 20 01:18:12 localhost SERVER[21311]: Dispatch_input: bad request > line > 'BBÜóÿ¿Ýóÿ¿Þóÿ¿ßóÿ¿XX%.156u%300$n%.21u%301$nsecurity%302$n%.192u%303$n\22

Re: weird messages in syslog

2001-11-20 Thread nate
Jim McCloskey said: > > I have the following in syslog (and in /var/log/messages): > > Nov 20 01:18:12 localhost SERVER[21311]: Dispatch_input: bad > request line > 'BBÜóÿ¿Ýóÿ¿Þóÿ¿ßóÿ¿XX%.156u%300$n%.21u%301$nsecurity%302$n%.192u%303$n\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220> > and so o

weird messages in syslog

2001-11-20 Thread Jim McCloskey
I have the following in syslog (and in /var/log/messages): Nov 20 01:18:12 localhost SERVER[21311]: Dispatch_input: bad request line 'BBÜóÿ¿Ýóÿ¿Þóÿ¿ßóÿ¿XX%.156u%300$n%.21u%301$nsecurity%302$n%.192u%303$n\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 and so on and so on and so on. It's rep