Re: [Fwd: SANS Flash Alert For Solaris]

From: R. DuFresne (dufresneat_private)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2000 - 10:15:08 PST

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    I believe that in the wild solaris and linux have been the most common
    systems exploited, and solaris is the #1 platform that has been seen to be
    compromised and used to DOS other systems, thus the solaris binaries...
    
    Thanks,
    
    Ron DuFresne
    
    On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 sedwardsat_private wrote:
    
    > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, James Triplett wrote:
    > 
    > > > Where to find the software:
    > > > 
    > > > The host-based tool from NIPC may be found at:
    > > > http://www.fbi.gov/nipc/trinoo.htm
    > > 
    > > I suppose this is legit.  However, they are asking us to run
    > > AS ROOT, some unknown executable on all our important systems.
    > > Goes against the most basic security procedures!
    > > 
    > > No source provided, no way to ensure that this isn't just another trojan...
    > > (even the fbi.gov site could be hacked, and anyway how do they know what
    > > is in the executable?)
    > > 
    > > James
    > 
    > Running strings on the executable prints out stuff that looks a lot like
    > the attack client/server. Did they use the source to create their tool?
    > 
    > This made me anxious enough to wait for a while to see if somebody posted
    > a warning...
    > 
    > Also, why no i386 executables or even a mention that the executables they
    > provided were only for SPARC?
    > 
    > 
    > Thanks in advance,
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