Lan Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:13:14PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > Tracy R Reed wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:56:01AM -0800, Ralph Shumaker spake thusly:
> > > > This was MySQL on Linux machines? or on M$?
> > > 
> > > On MS. It only affected MySQL running on Windows systems. 
> > 
> > Not true. They were looking for weak admin passowrds on MySQL databases,
> > and using that to inject the payload into the system tables of the MySQL
> > server. This would affect non-MS systems as well. However, the payload
> > would only work on the MS systems.
> 
> Hmm ... by payload you mean malicious code to be executed? What would
> one try to get a Unix variant to execute that could cause trouble?
> 
> That's a real question, not rhetorical. 

Shellcode. You can find examples on bugtraq postings.

-john (SLB)
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