eric@lucii.org on 2 Aug 2004 11:32:04 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] what's this?


On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 05:55:41PM -0400, Kam Salisbury wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 17:00, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> > My firewall (SME Server - formerly e-smith) has a bunch of messages
> > like this in the /var/log/messages:
> > 
> > Aug  1 16:07:17 polaris kernel: denylog:IN=eth1 
> >         OUT= MAC=NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:00:01:5c:22:00:02:08:00 
> >         SRC=68.111.197.211 DST=68.34.XXX.YYY LEN=48 TOS=0x00 
> >         PREC=0x00 TTL=110 ID=10932 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3811 
> >         DPT=5554 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
> > 
> > Where NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN is my external ethernet card's MAC address
> > and   68.34.XXX.YYY is the external ethernet card's IP address.
> > 
> > Looks like the firewall is rejecting something - but I'm not 100%
> > certain what's happening here.  Is there some sort of internet
> > attack taking place?
> > 
> > 
> > Eric
> Eric, DPT=5554 would be the port being blocked right? Take a look 
> at http://isc.incidents.org/port_details.php?port=5554
> 
> It would seem that the Dabber worm is trying to see if there is a 
> Sasser worm on your IP to take advantage of. 
> 
> 
> --
> Kam Salisbury
> http://kamsalisbury.com
> 

Thanks.  That puts my mind at ease (for now).  I could not tell if
there was something _inside_ my network trying to get out...
after all, there are some Windows machines in the house :-D

Eric

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