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

["Paul Harvey" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anonymous was not turned on.  So I am not sure how they got in.  We suspect
they used a network sniffer to grab the usernames and passwords and then
installed the exploit.

Paul



----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara -" <thebizworkers@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 12:04 PM
Subject: [cobalt-security] Hacked by SDI linux remote exploit for ProFTP


> >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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