1.7 compromise attempt and crash?
Sylvain Robitaille
syl at alcor.concordia.ca
Mon May 15 17:20:00 UTC 2000
david at kasey.umkc.edu wrote:
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> srwxrwxrwx 1 root news 0 May 12 05:43 ctlinndaacmEa
...
> I don't know why there would be a zero-length setuid root file
> in there.
Someone else already pointed this out, but that particular "s"
identifies the file as a "socket", not a setuid file. (The setuid bit
shows up in the "x" posistion of user permissions -- lower case "s" if
execute is also set, upper case "S" if not.)
> Did 1.7 servers all over crash at dawn today or just mine?
My Inn-1.7 server worked fine right through the weekend.
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Sylvain Robitaille syl at alcor.concordia.ca
Systems analyst / Newsmaster Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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