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[linux-security] Re: dos-attack on inetd.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bernhard Rosenkraenzer)
Thu Jan 16 12:08:24 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:27:25 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <linux@startrek.in-trier.de>
To: Magnus Bergman <trident@unix.pp.se>
cc: linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970112221956.17857B-100000@night.dataphone.se>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Magnus Bergman wrote:
> I discovered a bug in the inetd that comes with NetKit-B-0-08 and older.
>
> If a single SYN is sent to port 13 of the server, inetd will die of Broken
> Pipe:
Try the gnu inetutils (1.2f, as found of alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu will
work with Linux). Shouldn't have this bug.
LLaP
bero
