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- Security Bulletin 9205 DISA Defense Communications System
- February 18, 1992 Published by: DDN Security Coordination Center
- (SCC@NIC.DDN.MIL) 1-(800) 365-3642
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- DEFENSE DATA NETWORK
- SECURITY BULLETIN
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- The DDN SECURITY BULLETIN is distributed by the DDN SCC (Security
- Coordination Center) under DISA contract as a means of communicating
- information on network and host security exposures, fixes, and concerns
- to security and management personnel at DDN facilities. Back issues may
- be obtained via FTP (or Kermit) from NIC.DDN.MIL [192.112.36.5]
- using login="anonymous" and password="guest". The bulletin pathname is
- scc/ddn-security-yynn (where "yy" is the year the bulletin is issued
- and "nn" is a bulletin number, e.g., scc/ddn-security-9205).
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- CA-92:03 CERT Advisory
- February 17, 1992
- Internet Intruder Activity
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- The Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has
- received information regarding a significant intrusion incident on the
- Internet. Systems administrators should be aware that many systems on
- the Internet have been compromised due to this activity. To identify
- whether your systems have been affected by the activity, we recommend
- that all system administrators check for the signs of intrusion
- detailed in this advisory.
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- This advisory describes the activities that have been identified as
- part of this particular incident. This does not address the
- possibility that systems may have been compromised due to other,
- unrelated intrusion activity.
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- I. Description
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- The intruders gained initial access to a host by discovering a
- password for a user account on the system. They then attempted
- to become root on the compromised system.
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- II. Impact
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- Having gained root access on a system, the intruders installed
- trojan binaries that captured account information for both
- local and remote systems. They also installed set-uid root
- shells to be used for easy root access.
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- III. Solution
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- A. Check your systems for signs of intrusion due to this incident.
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- 1. Check the su, ftpd, and ftp binaries (for example, "/bin/su",
- "/usr/ucb/ftp" and "/usr/etc/in.ftpd" on Sun systems)
- against copies from distribution media.
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- 2. Check for the presence of any of the following files:
- "/usr/etc/..." (dot dot dot), "/var/crash/..." (dot dot dot),
- "/usr/etc/.getwd", "/var/crash/.getwd", or
- "/usr/kvw/..." (dot dot dot).
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- 3. Check for the presence of "+" in the "/etc/hosts.equiv" file.
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- 4. Check the home directory for each entry in the "/etc/passwd"
- file for the presence of a ".rhosts" file containing
- "+ +" (plus space plus).
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- 5. Search the system for the presence of the following set-uid
- root files: "wtrunc" and ".a".
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- 6. Check for the presence of the set-uid root file "/usr/lib/lpx".
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- B. Take the following steps to secure your systems.
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- 1. Save copies of the identified files to removable media.
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- 2. Replace any modified binaries with copies from
- distribution media.
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- 3. Remove the "+" entry from the "/etc/hosts.equiv" file and
- the "+ +" (plus space plus) entry from any ".rhosts" files.
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- 4. Remove any of the set-uid root files that you find, which are
- mentioned in A5 or A6 above.
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- 5. Change every password on the system.
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- 6. Inspect the files mentioned in A2 above for references
- to other hosts.
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- If you believe that your system has been compromised, contact CERT/CC or
- your representative in FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams).
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- Internet E-mail: cert@cert.sei.cmu.edu
- Telephone: 412-268-7090 (24-hour hotline)
- CERT/CC personnel answer 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. EST(GMT-5)/EDT(GMT-4),
- on call for emergencies during other hours.
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- Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center (CERT/CC)
- Software Engineering Institute
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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- Past advisories, information about FIRST representatives, and other
- information related to computer security are available for anonymous ftp
- from cert.sei.cmu.edu (192.88.209.5).
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