Subject:
        Security
   Date:
        Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:53:12 -0600
   From:
        Lindsay Haisley <fmouse@fmp.com>
     To:
        linux@ctlug.org




This deserves everyone's immediate attention!

>Delivered-To: fmouse@fmp.com
>Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 11:15:25 -0600
>From: Richard Martin <dmartin@origen.com>
>X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
>X-Accept-Language: en
>To: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse@fmp.com>
>Subject: Security
>
>Lindsay,
>
>I don't know if this is appropriate to post to the list, but it is of
>general interest.  Please post it if you think appropriate and of
>enough general interest.  Perhaps we can save someone else the drama
>of restoring an entire server. This is all the more disturbing because
>I thought I was pretty secure.
>
>We are running a nameserver under RH 6.0, and our machine was
>compromised yesterday  through a break-in via BIND.  It appears the
>attackers entered through a bug in BIND and assumed root privileges
>through named. This affects multiple versions of BIND, and there is a
>CERT page on it at:
>
>http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-14-bind.html
>
>The attackers added two new users; rpc and lpstatd, and bound socket
>111 to a binary I could not locate. They flushed the ipchains rulesets
>and disabled portsentry on their first visit, then masked their entry
>in the log files.  du, ps, netstat and ifconfig binaries were changed
>to present bogus output. The one login that I was able to track came
>from usc.edu (they were notified).
>
>I became first aware something was wrong when Big Brother reported
>that the DNS had crashed.  After fiddling with it for more than an
>hour of looking at bogus system reports, I ran tripwire and discovered
>that the directory ADMROCKS had been added to the named data
>directory. when TW showed that several binaries had been changed, game
>over, I disconnected the machine.
>
>Good news, there is already an update for BIND (and one at the RH
>site, although it is not listed on the CERT page)
>
>After rebuilding the machine and restarting, ipchains is bouncing
>packets from port  2518 and 2522 from dialup accounts all over the
>world (notably france and germany)
>
>Hope this helps someone.
>
>
>--
>Richard Martin       dmartin@origen.com
>
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>
>
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Subject:
             Re: Security
        Date:
             Wed, 8 Dec 1999 09:40:39 -0600
       From:
             Lindsay Haisley <fmouse@fmp.com>
 Organization:
             FMP Computer Services
         To:
             almacen@bellsouth.net
  References:
             1 , 2




I don't know.  You need to contact Red Hat.  I just passed this on from
Richard Martin.

Thus spake almacen@bellsouth.net on Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:17:32AM CST
> Hi Lindsay,
>
> Is this 'security hole' also found in RH 6.1, or is it corrected?
>
> Orlando
> = = = =
>
> Lindsay Haisley wrote:
>
> > This deserves everyone's immediate attention!
> >
> > >Delivered-To: fmouse@fmp.com
> > >Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 11:15:25 -0600
> > >From: Richard Martin <dmartin@origen.com>
> > >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
> > >X-Accept-Language: en
> > >To: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse@fmp.com>
> > >Subject: Security
> > >
> > >Lindsay,
> > >
> > >We are running a nameserver under RH 6.0, and our machine was
> > >compromised yesterday  through a break-in via BIND.
>

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