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RE: Packets destined for ports 6970 and 6972
From: "Bell, James (AZ76)" <James.Bell () honeywell com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:14:09 -0700
That could be adware from RealAudio or Quicktime streaming server, I believe, although I've never gotten at much as you report here. Invariably, when I track the source, it's a streaming server that someone has been using.
-----Original Message----- From: Elliott Perrin [mailto:eperrin () bigorbit com] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 8:20 AM To: INCIDENTS () securityfocus com Subject: Packets destined for ports 6970 and 6972 For the past two days I have seen connection attempts to my firewall to UDP ports 6970 and 6972 in the order of about 3500 attempts from each of about 10 different IP's. Here is a quick snip.... (note I log in vain hence the reason these show up in my messages) Jul 18 10:00:06 fw1 /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6970 from 63.228.31.233:6972 Jul 18 10:00:06 fw1 /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6970 from 63.228.31.233:6972 Jul 18 10:00:06 fw1 /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6972 from 63.228.31.233:6972 Jul 18 10:00:06 fw1 last message repeated 13 times Today's messages log which started at Midnight is already at 35,000 lines with the same as above only from different hosts. There are no services running on my firewall, all servers run in a DMZ. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this activity and has an idea about what it may be, if this is a new attack or worm in the wild. My box is running FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE and IPFILTER. Cheers, _________________________________ Elliott Perrin Senior Systems Administrator Biographix Corporation eperrin () bigorbit com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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Current thread:
- Packets destined for ports 6970 and 6972 Elliott Perrin (Jul 18)
- RE: Packets destined for ports 6970 and 6972 Bryan Allerdice (Jul 18)
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- RE: Packets destined for ports 6970 and 6972 Bell, James (AZ76) (Jul 18)