Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:51:57 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:11.inetd [REVISED] Message-ID: <20010129225157.O26076@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20010129222903.A79869@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:29:03PM -0800 References: <security-advisories@freebsd.org> <200101300609.f0U69Cf70017@green.dyndns.org> <20010129222903.A79869@xor.obsecurity.org>
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* Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> [010129 22:28] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:09:11AM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > Actually, there were two issues. One was that the permissions weren't > > dropped totally on the way to opening the .fakeid file, and the other was > > that it was not read in a way that would be guaranteed not to block, so by > > creating a named pipe, the user could hang an inetd child. > > Is that really a security issue, though? Just a guess, one could slowly eat away at all available proccess slots. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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