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Re: more details on the recent compromise of debian.org machines



On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:08:45 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels
<lists@lina.inka.de> wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:04:00AM +0000, James Troup wrote:
>> On Wednesday 19th November (2003), at approximately 5pm GMT, a sniffed
>> password was used to access an (unprivileged) account on
>> klecker.debian.org.
>
>Can we have details on how that password was sniffed, or is this unknown?

Since the root kit used, suckit, includes a pty sniffer, I suspect
that the password was sniffed on a suckit-compromised third-party box
that one developer used.

Greetings
Marc

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