[cobalt-security] Hacked by SDI linux remote exploit for ProFTP

[Barbara - <thebizworkers@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Although I have all the security patches in place,
>including the 'Security: proftpd Update 1.0.1' 
>they got in using 'SDI linux remote exploit 
>for ProFTP'

Just out of curiosity, don't you need to be running
anonymous ftp for this exploit to work? I just checked
Security Focus and it says "SDI anonymous remote
exploit for proftpd". From what I can gather, it says
they first need "permission to download a file (like
welcome.msg or README)." Not that this isn't a serious
issue, but if anonymous FTP isn't turned on, I don't
think it would be so easy to exploit (unless of course
a user decides to try). Please correct me if I'm
wrong.

http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=1&mid=27450

Barbara

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