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From: Erik Bourget <erik@midmaine.com>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Three kernel Oops/panic/BUG ksymoopses (kernel BUG at buffer.c:539)
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:50:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ekugzopi.fsf@midmaine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401031352040.2301-100000@poirot.grange> (Guennadi Liakhovetski's message of "Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:54:27 +0100 (CET)")

Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> writes:

> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Erik Bourget wrote:
>
>> I had a very bizarre situation where four boxes in the same rack all
>> simultaneously (within 30 minutes) hard-locked with Oops messages.  The
>> boxes
>
> An obvious idea - after reading an article about a break-in into Debian
> and others' boxes - sure you weren't cracked?

Yeah, that was a concern and I'm relatively sure that's not the case because

*) chkrootkit says so (mod some hidden processes that are reported by a bug in
 chkrootkit according to Google)

*) The crashy boxes were all installed with 2.4.23, not upgraded, so the big
 Debian vulnerability didn't exist

*) The only open ports to the outside world are running SMTP and POP3 as
 non-root no-shell accounts, and it's running qmail which seems simple and
 safe enough.

- Erik Bourget


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-03 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-02 23:31 Three kernel Oops/panic/BUG ksymoopses (kernel BUG at buffer.c:539) Erik Bourget
2004-01-03 12:54 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-01-03 21:50   ` Erik Bourget [this message]
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-29 15:39 Erik Bourget

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