Re: Has my fedora 18 installation been hacked?

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On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:53:12 +0000, agraham wrote:

> On 03/15/2013 11:16 AM, Georgios Petasis wrote:
> > I suspect that it is a joomla 1.5.26 exploit. I have found two php files
> > in the tmp folder of one web site,
> > and POSTs to them in the apache access log file.
> > (I know this is an old version of joomla, and I have made the mistake to
> > make the folders tmp, cache & log writtable by the apache in selinux...)
> >
> > Thus, I have shutdown the web server, and monitor the server for a few
> > days, to see if these firewall complains persist.
> >
> 
> The only way to be sure the machine is clean is to re-install Fedora 
> (and re-format) from scratch and

Certainly not "the only way", but it might be more easy than failing to
detect how the system has been modified. Simply running "rpm -Va" is
insufficient. Running an intrusion detector such as AIDE would have
been necessary to cover many more (if not all) installed files.

> probably and older version like F17 as 
> F18 is very new.

That won't change a thing when installing an out-of-date Joomla that
is not included within the Fedora package collection.

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