Re: [Full-disclosure] help: I need to crack my box

[Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

--On Tuesday, July 22, 2008 09:35:03 +0200 Lucio Crusca <lucio@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> Alex Howells wrote:
>
>> Probably not and I can't think anyone hiding a 0-day is going to
>> release it for this. Sorry.
> No 0-day needed here, Lenny does not have security updates, so all I need is
> some PoC code already released in the last few months...
>
> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> Ask the hosting company
> It's a firewalled LAN machine that had the VNC port open for a while, but
> it's not hosted by a provider, my customer has it under its desk (yes, ok,
> it's not really mine, but my customer doesn't even know what a computer
> is). I can access it now with ssh through a tunnel, that's all I have.
>

So call your customer up and walk him through rebooting, going into single user 
mode and changing the password.

-- 
Paul Schmehl
As if it wasn't already obvious,
my opinions are my own and not
those of my employer.

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