Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Celso González
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:58:27PM -0500, Robert Ebright wrote: Hello, I logged in to my server today to find that /usr/sbin/ncsd was running about 50 copies, since I don't have BIND installed, obviously something was up...they were also running with the user www-data... After a little bit

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Celso González wrote: I dont have any information about your trojan, but i can give you a solution (also a good security practice) Mount /tmp in a separate partition with the noexec flag in fstab This will disable most of the trojans Sorry to delude you, but browse the

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 at 10:47:49AM +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Celso Gonz?lez wrote: I dont have any information about your trojan, but i can give you a solution (also a good security practice) Mount /tmp in a separate

RE: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
While I agree with your observation I feel compelled to defend his point. He said mounting /tmp will stop MOST Trojans. While it might not stop a trojan planted by a person, it will stop a trojan planted by a worm (which is what this thread is about) since the author of the worm might

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Victor Calzado Mayo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi On Tuesday 10 June 2003 21:58, Robert Ebright wrote: Have you copy to the new server the home directory of the user www-data? in debian is located in the root directory of the web server, so if you have copy the document root from the old server

2.5 and grsec [was Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?]

2003-06-11 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:24:11PM +0200, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: I use it and am very happy with it. If I trust archives from this list, I am not the only one in this case :-) Is anyone using it with 2.5? I'm on the cusp of switching a few machines to it to get up the learning curve

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Celso González
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:58:27PM -0500, Robert Ebright wrote: Hello, I logged in to my server today to find that /usr/sbin/ncsd was running about 50 copies, since I don't have BIND installed, obviously something was up...they were also running with the user www-data... After a little bit

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Celso González wrote: I dont have any information about your trojan, but i can give you a solution (also a good security practice) Mount /tmp in a separate partition with the noexec flag in fstab This will disable most of the trojans Sorry to delude you, but browse the

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 at 10:47:49AM +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Celso Gonz?lez wrote: I dont have any information about your trojan, but i can give you a solution (also a good security practice) Mount /tmp in a separate

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: While I agree with your observation I feel compelled to defend his point. He said mounting /tmp will stop MOST Trojans. While it might not stop a trojan planted by a person, it will stop a trojan planted by a worm (which is what this thread is

RE: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
While I agree with your observation I feel compelled to defend his point. He said mounting /tmp will stop MOST Trojans. While it might not stop a trojan planted by a person, it will stop a trojan planted by a worm (which is what this thread is about) since the author of the worm might

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Victor Calzado Mayo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi On Tuesday 10 June 2003 21:58, Robert Ebright wrote: Have you copy to the new server the home directory of the user www-data? in debian is located in the root directory of the web server, so if you have copy the document root from the old server

2.5 and grsec [was Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?]

2003-06-11 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:24:11PM +0200, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: I use it and am very happy with it. If I trust archives from this list, I am not the only one in this case :-) Is anyone using it with 2.5? I'm on the cusp of switching a few machines to it to get up the learning curve

a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-10 Thread Robert Ebright
Hello, I logged in to my server today to find that /usr/sbin/ncsd was running about 50 copies, since I don't have BIND installed, obviously something was up...they were also running with the user www-data... After a little bit of research I found a new crontab entryFile: /tmp/crontab.LYukbF 0

a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-10 Thread Robert Ebright
Hello, I logged in to my server today to find that /usr/sbin/ncsd was running about 50 copies, since I don't have BIND installed, obviously something was up...they were also running with the user www-data... After a little bit of research I found a new crontab entryFile: /tmp/crontab.LYukbF 0