Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Making things worse

When the object of an attack on your system is to "borrow" your
bandwidth and harddrive space, the FTP server "Serv-U" is often used
(because of its small size and its portability). To make things worse,
there's a number of vulnerabilities in that binary, resulting in
exploits such as this which allows the secondary attacker to gain system privileges.

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