Re: <Advice> Possible Backdoor into openssh-3.7.1p1-i386-1.tgz from Slackware Mirror

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Piermark wrote:

; Hi,
;
; I have update my Slackware 9.0 with openssh-3.7.1p1-i386-1.tgz from
; http://www.slackware.at/data/slackware-9.0/patches/packages/openssh-3.7.1p1-i386-1.tgz
;
; Now i have 3 new tcp/ip ports into my system: (thank Nmap) :-)
;
; - 867 Open
; - 879 Open
; - 889 Open
;
; Example:
;
; telnet> open
; (to) 127.0.0.1 867
; Trying 127.0.0.1...
; Connected to 127.0.0.1.
; Escape character is '^]'.

Check them with fuser -n tcp 867 and so on, or netstat -tupan, it will
show you which process is bind()'ed to those ports.

; These ports are choice random from a range of 300 - 1200 !! and the size of
; the tgz is various for every mirror:
;
; 628642 Sep 20 17:58 openssh-3.7.1p1-i386-1.tgz (from www.slackware.at)
; 628481 Sep 20 21:01 openssh-3.7p1-i386-1.tgz (from www.slackware.com)

Sure they are, because openssh-3.7.1p1 != openssh-3.7p1

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