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[linux-security] Re: Re: dos-attack on inetd.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Jan 16 13:44:48 1997
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:32:42 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970116132636.5320A-100000@ufp.in-trier.de> from "Bernhard Rosenkraenzer" at Jan 16, 97 01:27:25 pm
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
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> Try the gnu inetutils (1.2f, as found of alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu will
> work with Linux). Shouldn't have this bug.
GNU inet utils had almost every bug going derived from the 4.4 networking.
The netkit-0.09 kit should fix the inetd problem. It and the fixed
libc5.3.12 also fix a pile of other problems. The Red Hat netkit-0.08-8 has
most of the netkit-0.09 security changes in it.
Alan
