brute force ssh attack

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:26:03PM +0200, Daniel Kirsten wrote:
> My question is:  They did not guess the root password, 
> how did they manipulate files which are only writable 
> by root???

Did you happen to have perl-suidperl installed?

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=146738>


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