Re: What kind of attack?

[Jose Nazario <jose () BIOCSERVER BIOC CWRU EDU>]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Christopher A. Romp wrote:

> What kind of attack is this?:
>
> Oct 16 18:50:33 maximus rpc.statd[298]: SM_MON request for hostname
> containing '/':

[snip a log containing buffer overflow junk]

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-17.html is the attack and problem
you want to note. you may want to hop on your vendors' security mailing
list, or start paying attention to BUGTRAQ traffic. this is not a new
hole.

jose nazario                                    jose () biochemistry cwru edu
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