Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 14:48:49 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: shivan@ICI.NET Cc: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible DoS in rsh Message-ID: <19981009144849.44978@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <199810061943.PAA28852@bajor.ici.net>; from Shivan Dragon on Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 03:43:01PM -0400 References: <199810061943.PAA28852@bajor.ici.net>
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Shivan Dragon writes:
> I don't know if this has been posted before so here it is. If you link your
> .rhosts file (or hosts.equiv?) to /dev/zero. When you try to rsh it tried to
> read /dev/zero that is of infinate length. I've tried to rsh in and I get
> timed out after 60 seconds.
Please specify the platform when you send such a post.
Which OS ? Which version of the rshd ?
BTW: FreeBSD 2.2.7 seems to be unaffected (just asks for
your password instead).
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-[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]-
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