Re: MORE SSH Hacking: heads-up

[Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar tarnation dyndns org>]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 19:59 -0400, Dave Rinker wrote:
> funny to still see this thread running.
> 
> Your conversation of the su issue prompted me to look for an exploit.
> Found this linux "su" exploit that copies the passwords to /tmp/.tmp
> 
> The only problem is you'd have to get it there first.
> 
> http://packetstormsecurity.nl/groups/shadowpenguin/unix-tools/passwd_linux.c
> 
> 
> Has anyone used my iptables suggestion with success?
> 

Perhaps I'm being daft, but the exploit appears to be a 'passwd' trojan,
not an su trojan. And the attacker would need to get it in a place where
it would get inadvertently run (preferably by root). 

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Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar tarnation dyndns org>