Hobocomp hacked!

23 Feb 2008, 1:50am

A few nights ago, Travis used an exploit in the Linux kernel to gain root access to the server. Fortunately for hobocomp, Travis is a kind person, and only made the server beep, alerting me that someone with root access was logged in.

After looking at the ssh logs, and determining it was a umich student that had gained access, I guessed it was Travis, based on Paul coming into the room shortly after the beep, and Travis' Linux ski11z.

Hobocomp is now safe from this type of user attack, as a patch for this exploit was released, and I learned how to patch the Linux kernel on Ubuntu. Unfortunately, I had to reboot because of patching, so the previous (record...?) uptime of 23 days, 22:17 was reset. Such is life.

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