Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread Patrick Okui
On Friday 29 December 2006 21:50, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > That looks like CPAN to me. pear is actually like CPAN - but for PHP. I didn't have the said download directory on my FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE machine, but going to /usr/ports/devel/pear and doing make all install clean sure does cre

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread jonathan michaels
gareth On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:54:36PM +0200, gareth wrote: > On Fri 2006-12-29 (10:16), Jeremy Chadwick wrote: with regards to you last post to me (personal) i had installed freebsd v6.1-release and setup xwindows (both kde & gnome) desktop environments, then left teh machine sit and settle.

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread gareth
On Fri 2006-12-29 (10:16), Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Apparently pkg_fetch will use either $PKG_TMPDIR or $TMPDIR as a > temporary storage location for where things are stored. Taken from > the manpage in pkgtools-2.2.2/man/pkg_fetch.1: > > PKG_TMPDIR > TMPDIR (In that order) Temporary

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread gareth
On Fri 2006-12-29 (19:48), Thomas Nystr?m wrote: > It looks like this: > > ture(root)# dir > total 50 > drwxrwxr-x 5 root wheel512 29 Aug 16:29 ./ > drwxrwxrwt 11 root wheel 3072 29 Dec 19:35 ../ > drwxrwxr-x 4 root wheel512 29 Aug 16:29 Archive_Tar-1.3.1/ > drwxrwxr-x 3 root

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Dec 29, 2006, at 13:53 , Thomas Nyström wrote: I'm wondering if maybe a PHP script is trying to do something with pkg_fetch, and does something like setenv("PKG_TMPDIR", "/tmp/ download") before calling system("pkg_fetch ..."). Why a PHP script would do this, I don't know, but it wouldn't

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Dec 29, 2006, at 13:48 , Thomas Nyström wrote: ture(root)# dir total 50 drwxrwxr-x 5 root wheel512 29 Aug 16:29 ./ drwxrwxrwt 11 root wheel 3072 29 Dec 19:35 ../ drwxrwxr-x 4 root wheel512 29 Aug 16:29 Archive_Tar-1.3.1/ drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel512 29 Aug 16:29 Consol

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread Thomas Nyström
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I've been following this thread and trying to track down what's been reported (by two people at this point); that is, temporary ports "stuff" getting stored in /tmp/download. A `grep -r '/download$' /usr/ports` returns some results, but not very many. Ones which could r

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread Thomas Nyström
gareth wrote: On Fri 2006-12-29 (17:25), Thomas Nystr?m wrote: I just checked one of my servers and also found a /tmp/download directory with the same files that you had. I then compared the timestamp of /tmp/download with the timestamp of the directories in /var/db/pkg: Same. My conclusion i

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 07:39:16PM +0200, gareth wrote: > oh. ok. well even though that's weird behaviour from a package it's > more plausible since i haven't found anything else suspicious. are > the timestamps exactly the same? i have 4 packages that're 20 minutes > different. which of yours are

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread gareth
On Fri 2006-12-29 (17:25), Thomas Nystr?m wrote: > I just checked one of my servers and also found a /tmp/download > directory with the same files that you had. > > I then compared the timestamp of /tmp/download with the timestamp > of the directories in /var/db/pkg: Same. > > My conclusion is th

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread Thomas Nyström
y had a system breach (through some php-based webapplication). I could then find a directory in /tmp owned by www that contains a complete distribution with configurescript and the result of the build. This /tmp/download doesn't look like that at

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread gareth
On Fri 2006-12-29 (11:07), Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Oct 23 00:31:42 lordcow kernel: pid 48464 (conftest), uid 0: exited on > > signal 12 (core dumped) > > Oct 23 01:19:26 lordcow kernel: pid 17512 (conftest), uid 0: exited on > > signal 12 (core dumped) > > These are from autoconf testing vario

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread gareth
On Thu 2006-12-28 (22:10), David Todd wrote: > something's up, nothing in ports will write to a /tmp/download > directory, so either you or someone with root access did it. thought as much :/ > I suggest: > checking /var/log/auth.log for attempted breachings i had a rough skim and nothing suspic

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread David Todd
something's up, nothing in ports will write to a /tmp/download directory, so either you or someone with root access did it. I suggest: checking /var/log/auth.log for attempted breachings run sockstat and look for processes with ports open that shouldn't have ports open. conftest cores ususally

Re: system breach

2006-12-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
gareth wrote: > Oct 23 00:31:42 lordcow kernel: pid 48464 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal > 12 (core dumped) > Oct 23 01:19:26 lordcow kernel: pid 17512 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal > 12 (core dumped) These are from autoconf testing various capabilities of the system to do with signa

system breach

2006-12-28 Thread gareth
hey guys, my server rebooted a few days ago, and while i was looking around for possible reasons (none came up, which's disconcerting in itself) i found this suspicious directory: $ ls -l /tmp/download total 44 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel512 Oct 23 16:28 Archive_Tar-1.3.1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root whe