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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