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

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 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 (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 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 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

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. ...