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Re[2]: 11 years of inetd default insecurity?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (3APA3A)
Mon Sep 8 14:14:27 2003

Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:07:00 +0400
From: 3APA3A <3APA3A@SECURITY.NNOV.RU>
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To: psz@maths.usyd.edu.au (Paul Szabo)
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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Dear Paul Szabo,



--Monday, September 8, 2003, 4:26:24 AM, you wrote to 3APA3A@SECURITY.NNOV.RU:


>> -R 0 -s your_ad_can_be_here

PS> Your  cure  is  worse  than  the disease: rate limiting allows a DoS
PS> against  the  service,  no  limit  allows  a  DoS  against the whole
PS> machine.

-s limits number of processes invoked from same IP. You can additionally
use  -c  to  prevent distributed attack. It doesn't allow to DoS box and
doesn't disable service for 10 minutes.

-- 
~/ZARAZA
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