Re: IRIX 6.2 passwordless accounts exploit?

From: Renaud Deraison (deraisonat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 29 1998 - 11:58:16 PDT

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    On 29-Sep-98 Charl Botha wrote:
    > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Dan Stromberg wrote:
    >> We've had a lot of script kiddies running an exploit against our campus,
    >> that checks for accounts that are passwordless by default in IRIX 6.2 -
    >> like 4Dgifts, EZsetup, and so on.  I've seen indications this isn't
    >> limited to our campus...
    >
    > Have a look at www.nessus.org -- Nessus is a network security tool that
    > definitely scans for these default accounts.
    
    Well, in fact there is a bug in the current version which will
    boost your adrenaline for nothing : some accounts are said to
    be passwordless, whereas they are not.
    I suggest that you use the work-in-progress version instead,
    (available at http://www.nessus.org/wip/) which corrects this
    problem and adds several new checks (there are now 109 plugins in
    Nessus).
    
    
                            -- Renaud
    
    --
    Renaud Deraison <deraisonat_private>
    The Nessus Project -- http://www.nessus.org
                          http://www.{fr,fi,jp}.nessus.org
    



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