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From: Tobias Wendorff <tobias.wendorff@tu-dortmund.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: observation: masses of requests to LDAP
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 15:32:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae73845c-b970-37ab-f429-65b15cf8540c@tu-dortmund.de> (raw)

Hi there,

our IT department has informed me that masses of requests are being sent 
from my computer to our two LDAP servers on port 389. After a detailed 
investigation, the problem could be clearly traced back to "cygwin".

Firewall logs show that about any tool, even base tools "sort" or 
"less", initiates a request to port 389 on our LDAP servers.

Sorry, I am _not_ going to release "cygcheck.out" to public, since it 
contains sensitive information about the domain and its groups and 
memberships.

Even after reinstalling cygwin from another server, the problem still 
appears. Could it be that this is part of an attack?

Best regards,
Tobias

             reply	other threads:[~2023-01-22 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-22 14:32 Tobias Wendorff [this message]
2023-01-22 19:24 ` Brian Inglis
2023-01-22 19:26 ` Corinna Vinschen

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