[SunHELP] can not list file with name containing "2001"

Thomas Cameron sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Thu May 24 07:19:06 CDT 2001


I may be dense, but I didn't see anything in that article that indicates
that inability to display files with "2001" in them is a known symptom
of a buffer overflow attack.

Can you clarify?  What makes you think the box was cracked?

Thanks,
Thomas

Jan Johansson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:34:11PM -0700, Tuan Quan wrote:
> >I can not find the infor there.
> 
> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/168936
> 
> >What is "rooted" mean?
> 
> Someone ( a hacker or cracker) has used the bug that the above
> URL talks about to gain root access on your machine. What you now
> need to do is see how much damage has been done. The machine that
> has the problem can not be trusted at all and should (must) be
> reinstalled from safe media such as an Solaris CD-ROM. You then
> need to answer atleast thease questions.



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