RE: wu-ftpd attack ???

["Aaron Lewis" <jim () jsw4 net>]

Ok. In efforts to find out what went on here, I have taken down some of the
security features recently implemented and restarted tcpdump with
tcpdump -nvv -s 1500 -w 'port 20 or 21' > /var/log/ftpdump &


I have copied this to the people who have asked for more information. I'd
rather deal with a few individuals directly than splatter this all over the
list. As soon as I have another incident I will post the dump results

Thanks



-----Original Message-----
From: OTERO Hernan Gustavo EDS [mailto:bazhgo () techint net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 7:04 AM
To: 'aaron () jsw4 net'
Subject: wu-ftpd attack ???


Could you sendme the tcpdump ( and the command that you run to make the dump
ie, tcpdump -nvv -s 1500 -w blablabla or any other )?



Thanks,
        Hernán Otero
Information Security Analyst


> I'm experiencing a situation where wu-ftpd wu-ftpd-2.6.1-20 on Red Hat 7.2
2.4.18-18.7.x >is
> getting broken by some specific type of scan (I think). When this happens,
wu-ftpd just stops
> responding to connection requests but port 21 is still listening according
to netstat






> -anl. I restart xinetd and all is well.

> Now, what I have managed to catch in the logs, just before the server
stops, are several >connections
> (or a scan) from a specific IP address to multiple virt hosts on my server.
There
> is NO annon ftp and there are NO shell accounts. If someone is interested
in the tcp dump
> for the FTP traffic during this, let me know. Other than that there is
nothing suspicious
> in the logs.

> Can someone tell me what might be going on please...

> Aaron Lewis
> JSW4.NET
> aaron () jsw4 net

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