Re: [Nolug] local exploits for FreeBSD??

Mikey <mraeder@payneservices.com> writes:

Of course, eggdrop itself could have exploitable flaws which would
allow a remote user to access and compromise it. then a "sniff" would
not have necessarily occurred.

> Joey Kelly wrote:
>
> > Anyone know of any local exploits for FreeBSD? In particular,
> > FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE #2
> > Here's the deal... one of our egddrop shells was sniffed. Scott says
> > that the only way to sniff is to have elevated privileges, to put
> > the nic into promiscuous mode.
> > Anyone have any thoughts about this?
>
> You do need to have privilages to run a sniffer on FreeBSD for
> programs like "sniff", "sniffit, "queso", etc.
>
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