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) -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
