Re: Help me analysis what did hacker do?

Jochen Schroeder wrote:
> Sam Halliday wrote:
> > Ares Liu... what kernel are you running? i have a suspicion this may be the
> > ptrace exploit, simply from the fact that it was the last "big" expoit and
> > the code is publiclaly available; and the cracker clearly didnt have a clue
> > what he/she was doing...
> But that would mean the cracker already had a local account. The ptrace 
> bug is a local not a remote exploit, so the box must have been cracked 
> by some other means as well, to get local access. Still interesting to 
> know how he got access.

the oringial poster still hasn't told us any info about his system. i had
assumed a local cracker because the logs seemed to show someone without a clue.
it is significantly harder to crack a non-local boxen.

either way, im just guessing as to what it was; i am very keen to hear how the
thing was really cracked.

Sam
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