Re: Strange errors in /var/log/messages

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Mon, 2 Jul 2001 19:42:12 +0200


On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:16:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I'm running RedHat 7.0 with all official RH patches applied. The kernel I
> > currently run fow a few days is 2.2.19-7.0.8
> > I run the pre-compiled kernel of RH. Suddenly I the following messages:
> >
> > Jul 2 15:12:16 gateway SERVER[1240]: Dispatch_input: bad request line
> > 'BBXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%.176u%3
> > 00$nsecurity.%301$n%302$n%.192u%303$n\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\22

> These are for an application. Not sure which or why

See CERT Advisory CA-2000-22
http://www.infowar.com/iwftp/cert/advisories/CA-2000-22.html

"A popular replacement software package to the BSD lpd printing service
called LPRng contains at least one software defect, known as a "format string
vulnerability," which may allow remote users to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable systems."
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/