Re: crack/imap

[Jeff Smelser <tradergt bigfoot com>]

Chuck Gadd wrote:
> 
> Jeff Smelser wrote:
> >
> > > >     Everyone who tries to get one here seems to try imap. Any reason
> > > > why? Does imap have lots of problems?
> >
> > no, these are crack attempts. I am my only user, and everyone else is
> > locked out of my system. But everytime I get a refused connect, its for
> > imap
> 
> The older versions of IMAP have big problems with buffer overflow bugs.
> 
> Looking at the log files of several linux boxes I maintain, I've seen the
> following ports hit in "crack" attempts:
> 
> IMAP  : Known exploits in old version
> NFS   : Known exploits in old version
> SNMP  : No idea why....
> FINGER : Probing for info?
> FTPD  : Looking for a pub FTP?

Is there anything bad about the pub ftp? I was thinking of opening my
up. I have the latest one from the updates server.

Jeff