Server hacked, Desperate for help with FC6
David Kramer
david at thekramers.net
Sat Nov 25 10:31:49 EST 2006
Bill Horne wrote:
> Grant M. wrote:
>> [snip]
>> The Ubuntu Enterprise server we're using was compromised on a
>> non-priviledged account once, but there isn't anything installed that
>> the user could use, so no worries.
> [snip]
>
> While we're on the subject, how did you find out?
The first symptom was I was having problems with MySQL, which eventually
led to my website not working.
In the end, the point of origin was almost definitely an exploit in
Zimbra, which is a web-based collaboration tool I installed to check
out, but never used. I found all sorts of subtle hints, like a new
zimbra user, which ended up in the /etc/sudoers file, and it was in the
uucp group and the wheel group.
The attack appears to have happened about three days after I installed
Zimbra, too.
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