Description
A system is running a version of software that was replaced with a Trojan Horse at one of its distribution points, such as (1) TCP Wrappers 7.6, (2) util-linux 2.9g, (3) wuarchive ftpd (wuftpd) 2.2 and 2.1f, (4) IRC client (ircII) ircII 2.2.9, (5) OpenSSH 3.4p1, or (6) Sendmail 8.12.6.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Sendmail 8.12.6 - Compromised Source Backdoor EDB-21919 · remote · Oct 8, 2002 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20021009 Re: CERT Advisory CA-2002-28 Trojan Horse Sendmail mailing-list
- sendmail-backdoor(10313) vdb-entry
- 5921 vdb-entry
- CA-1999-02 third-party-advisory
- 20020801 OpenSSH Security Advisory: Trojaned Distribution Files mailing-list
- CA-1994-14 third-party-advisory
- 20020801 trojan horse in recent openssh (version 3.4 portable 1) mailing-list
- CA-1999-01 third-party-advisory
- CA-1994-07 third-party-advisory
- CA-2002-28 third-party-advisory