Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:25:38PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:13:07PM +0000, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote:
> > My understanding is that the developer's account on the machine in
> > question had been disused for some time, and that the machine wasn't
> > very well-maintained. It could have been any one of a dozen local root
> > exploits that have been known for some time. I think they investigated,
> > but the results weren't particularly earth-shaking.
>
> Any indication of whether or not this was a local system or a remote
> system?
I don't quite understand the question, sorry. If you mean local/remote
with respect to the developer, I believe it was remote.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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