Hi David,

Were you/they running telnetd as a service in February? See
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/881872

On 13/04/07, David Gillett <gillettdavid (at) fhda (dot) edu [email concealed]> wrote:
> I've got a Solaris machine on my network that has acquired
> an unauthorized behaviour of unknown origin. Every night,
> from 1:10:30am until 6:00:30am, it tries to establish outbound
> telnet connections to addresses all over the Internet.
<snip>
> The machine is running the SIRSI library application; it's possible
> that the vulnerability is associated with that and not generically with
> Solaris. We're not heavy Solaris users here, and so IT doesn't support
> that machine -- I'm trying to help our SIRSI admin pin down what's going
> on so they can determine how to identify and remove the culprit.

Reformat and re-install? It's the only way to be sure you've cleaned
it properly. Probably cheaper than a thorough forensic examination as
well.

cheers,
Jamie
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Jamie Riden, CISSP / jamesr (at) europe (dot) com [email concealed] / jamie (at) honeynet.org (dot) uk [email concealed]
UK Honeynet Project: http://www.ukhoneynet.org/

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