Re: Hackers break into Pentagon system, threaten to sell info

From: Steve Birnbaum (sbirnat_private)
Date: Mon Apr 27 1998 - 00:34:21 PDT

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kantat_private said:
> Does anyone know of any details of the exploited Solaris
> vulnerability? 

An old and well known bug...to which there was a patch months before
he exploited them.  It was an exploit in rpc.statd, thus only affecting
unprotected and unpatched systems.  No big technical feat, just something
that thousands of script-kiddies do every day.


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