Re: Security(DoS) Problems with Inetd

[Chris Lewis <chris@coopinf.demon.co.uk>]

Hiya,

At 17:55 27/02/01, Kevin Sindhu wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> Many of you already know this from a posting(s) on either bugtrack or on
> NetBSD-users@. Attached with this mail is an exploit (DoS), that kills
> inetd processes. I have been able to reproduce this on:
>
> o       OpenBSD 2.8-current
> o       NetBSD 1.5-current
> o       Solaris 2.7(SPARC and x86)
> o       Linux 2.2.17 (Slackware 7.1)
Yep, I can confirm this on a 2.8-current build here. Successfully put inetd 
into the state you mentioned.
Glad I run nothing from inetd ;)

Chris