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[linux-security] Re: [RHSA-1999:055-01] Denial of service attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pavel Kankovsky)
Tue Nov 23 14:26:00 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:46:23 +0100 (MET)
From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak@argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
To: S/lawek /Lawicki <slawicki@unisoft.com.pl>
cc: linux-security@redhat.com
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On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, S/lawek /Lawicki wrote:
> Can someone give me some more information about it? After upgrade sysklogd
> to sysklogd-1.3.31-1.5.i386.rpm, I lost some information from the log
> files (like logs about incoming mail in /var/log/maillog), and some
> messages are displayed directly on a console (like who is logging in).
The syslogd client in question (mail daemon?) continues using the obsolete
communication protocol that does not work any longer because:
1. has not been restarted to load the new libc.so, 2. is statically linked
with an old version of libc, 3. is using its own implementation of
syslog().
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
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