On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:09:16AM -0400, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> For the last week or so I've been seeing the following entries in
> /var/log/messages:
>
> Sep 17 01:17:11 nbf-27 rpc.statd: Invalid hostname to sm_mon:
> ^D���^D���^E���^E���^F���^F���^G���^G���%08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x
> %08x %08x
Someone is trying to exploit a root hole in the Linux rpc.statd.
ou don't have anything to worry about running FreeBSD here :-)
However, firewalling is always a good idea.
Kris
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