Cliff Stoll’s DEF CON Talk

In August, Cliff Stoll gave a talk at DEF CON, remembering the wily hacker he stalked forty years ago. Great fun...

Meet Cliff Stoll, the Mad Scientist Who Invented the Art of Hunting Hackers

Thirty years ago, Cliff Stoll published The Cuckoo's Egg, a book about his cat-and-mouse game with a KGB-sponsored hacker. Today, the internet is a far darker place—and Stoll has become a cybersecurity icon...

Emacs - movemail Privilege Escalation Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a SUID installation of the Emacs movemail utility to run a command as root by writing to 4.3BSD's /usr/lib/crontab.local. The vulnerability is documented in Cliff Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Curren...

Emacs movemail Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Emacs movemail Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a SUID installation of the Emacs movemail utility to run a command ...

Emacs - movemail Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Emacs movemail Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a SUID installation of the Emacs movemail utility to run a command ...

Morris Worm - fingerd Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Morris Worm fingerd Stack Buffer Overflow', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in fingerd on 4.3BSD. This...

Morris Worm fingerd Stack Buffer Overflow

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Morris Worm fingerd Stack Buffer Overflow', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in fingerd on 4.3BSD. This...

Morris Worm sendmail Debug Mode Shell Escape Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits sendmail's well-known historical debug mode to escape to a shell and execute commands in the SMTP RCPT TO command. This vulnerability was exploited by the Morris worm in 1988-11-02. Cliff Stoll reports on the worm in the epilogue of The Cuckoo's Egg. Currently only...

Morris Worm fingerd Stack Buffer Overflow Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a stack buffer overflow in fingerd on 4.3BSD. This vulnerability was exploited by the Morris worm in 1988-11-02. Cliff Stoll reports on the worm in the epilogue of The Cuckoo's Egg. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

Morris Worm fingerd Stack Buffer Overflow

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in fingerd on 4.3BSD. This vulnerability was exploited by the Morris worm in 1988-11-02. Cliff Stoll reports on the worm in the epilogue of The Cuckoo's Egg. Currently, only bsd/vax/shellreversetcp is supported. This module requires Metasploit:...

Meeting Cliff Stoll

Today I had the chance to meet the man who unintentionally invented the modern digital forensics practice, Cliff Stoll. In 1989 he published a book about his 1986-87 detection and response against KGB-backed spies who hacked his lab and hundreds of government, military, and university computers. ...