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RE: [cobalt-security] gmon.out a security issue?
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-security] gmon.out a security issue?
- From: "Curtis Ross" <Curtis_Ross@xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 08:53:14 -0700
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
> I'm making this post both here and on cobalt-developers; I'm not sure
> where the expertise might reside to answer the question...
>
> One of my colocation clients, who has been hacked several times, notices
> that there's a "gmon.out" file, owned by root:siteX, in each directory
> of two websites owned by the same client.
>
> There's no reference to either "gmon" out or to gprofs (the program that
> produces it) in any of the files on either of the sites.
>
> Anyone have any ideas why or how this file could have appeared on these
> two sites?
>
> Jeff
I to starting having the gmon.out file show up after a update from Cobalt. That was some time ago and I can't remember which update. It might be in the archives. Typically it would show up after doing something Shh'd in with root.
Curtis