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| QUOTE ("Cert.Org") | CERTŪ Advisory CA-2003-21 GNU Project FTP Server Compromise
Original issue date: August 13, 2003
Last revised: --
Source: CERT/CC
A complete revision history is at the end of this file.
Overview
The CERT/CC has received a report that the system housing the primary FTP servers for the GNU software project was compromised.
I. Description
The GNU Project, principally sponsored by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), produces a variety of freely available software. The CERT/CC has learned that the system housing the primary FTP servers for the GNU software project, gnuftp.gnu.org, was root compromised by an intruder. The more common host names of ftp.gnu.org and alpha.gnu.org are aliases for the same compromised system. The compromise is reported to have occurred in March of 2003.
The FSF has released an announcement describing the incident.
Because this system serves as a centralized archive of popular software, the insertion of malicious code into the distributed software is a serious threat. As the above announcement indicates, however, no source code distributions are believed to have been maliciously modified at this time. |
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Posted: Aug 14 2003, 09:15 AM
