[H-GEN] Buffer Overflow attack

excal at kermit.humbug.org.au excal at kermit.humbug.org.au
Thu Sep 9 07:07:56 EDT 1999


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On 7 Sep 1999, Robert Brockway wrote:

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> The attack took the form of a buffer overflow attack on mountd from the IP
> 207.34.209.91 (a dialup box I believe as Interlog is an isp).  Blake
> blocked the attack and I've investigated the incident and it appears their
> attack was completely unsuccessful.  Soon after the buffer overflow attack
> connection attempts were made to the sunrpc port and port 10752.
> 
> I think other club members should check their logs to look for similar
> attacks as on a few previous occassions we have found several clubs
> machines have been attacked by the same person at around the same time.
> > All's well that ends well :)
> Cheers,

Sorry..  I didnt find anything else in my logs due to the fact that my
machine mysteriously destroyed itself somewhere between the times of 4pm
8/9/99 and 12:20am 9/9/99 .  Im am yet to find the cause.

Marc


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