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Re: [linux-security] Denial of service in inetd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Henning)
Sat May 4 12:31:02 1996
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 08:24:22 +0200
From: Peter Henning <peterh@gem.co.za>
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Chris Farris wrote:
>
> If you send these services the "SYN" packet and then reset the connection
> before the connection is open, it will cause inetd to die completly.
Does anyone know whether xinetd is vulnerable to the same sort of attacks?
If not, it should be considered as a more secure inetd replacement.
Unfortunately the configurations files are slightly different.
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