Have I been hacked?

fasty fasty at i-sphere.com
Mon Jun 9 20:05:09 PDT 2003


Ohh you need update your Freebsd source and rebuild. Because there have patch 10.

I noticed your FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p3 compare mine FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p10

-fasty


On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:32:14PM -0400, Ken Ebling wrote:
> I'm noticing something strange on two of my machines..  They're both 
> 4.7-RELEASE-p3 i386 and they've both been up 150 days without any 
> problems...
> 
> /var/log/messages on each system contains only:
>  Jun  9 12:00:01 in newsyslog[60291]: logfile turned over
> 
> dmesg's output is truncated..  it periodically changes, but currently 
> it reads:
> ite.net host=6532251hfc207.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.251.207]
> 
> What's really weird, is yesterday the messages file also only contained 
> the line about the log being turned over, but today I unzipped 
> messages.0 and it had entries for yesterday.  I'm going to check 
> messages.0 again after midnight and see if any of today's entries are 
> there.
> 
> Hindsight is always 20/20, and now I wish I had tripwire or aide 
> installed.  =/
> 
> I rebooted one of the machines, and now it seems to be acting normal 
> again..
> 
> I going to rebuild world on all my systems and install tripwire 
> anyways, but I'm kind of curious as to whether my machines have been 
> rooted or not.  I don't know if chkrootkit v0.40 is very accurate or 
> even worthwhile, but it reported no problems.  I also checked for 
> standard stuff like suid binaries and accounts with a uid of 0.  
> Nothing looks out of place, aside from the messages file being empty 
> and suddenly filling with data before newsyslog gzips it.
> 
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated,
> 
> Ken Ebling
> 
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