Bug 58454 - Bad: security hole in version 2.6.1-16
Summary: Bad: security hole in version 2.6.1-16
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: wu-ftpd
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-01-17 01:28 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-03-27 03:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-01-17 01:28:35 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2002-01-17 01:28:31 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901

Description of problem:
My server (www.sjsocial.org) was hacked by someone who I am pretty sure entred
via wu-ftpd. I don't know how. I had the recommended version installed. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:

I can't really offer much more information. When I discovered the hack I had to
reinsure the machine's integrity since the hacker changed basic binaries like
'ls' and created many entried in '/dev' so I have reformatted the disc in order
not to be off the air too long.
The source machine for the hack was in Germany, its ip started with:
141.35.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-01-17 11:45:40 UTC
Please update to 2.6.1-20.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-01-17 16:50:24 UTC
Unfortunately, the update provided on the errata pages, to close security holes
is version 2.6.1-16 implying that it is secure when obviously it isn't. The
errata pages should be updated to version 2.6.1-20, shouldn't they?


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