!SPAM! [Full-Disclosure] Automated ssh scanning

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:41:18 +0200, Richard Verwayen said:

> You are right about the passwords, but guest is only a unprivileged
> account as you may have on many prodruction machines. But they managed
> to become root on this machine due to a kernel(?) exploit!

Or an exploit of any of the set-UID root or runs-as-root programs on the system.

VeNoMouS posted ID's of most of the kits you found.

He didn't ID xpl.tar.gz pr psybnc.tgz - anybody recognize those?  I'm guessing
one of the following:

1) Debian Woody isn't patched for the kernel do_brk or ptrace holes yet.

2) One of the two as-yet-unID'ed kits has some other exploit that Woody hasn't
been patched against.

3) You haven't found all the kits yet. :)

But as noted by others, if they can get a local 'guest' shell, they're already 95%
of the way to root....
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