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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:42:29 -0800
From:      "Michael A. Dickerson" <mikey@singingtree.com>
To:        <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service (fwd)
Message-ID:  <004b01c0ada9$99f7b540$db9497cf@singingtree.com>
References:  <98righ$100l$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>

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> 4.1 from Aug 10th is hurt by it.
>
>          ---Mike
>

So is 4.3-beta (otherwise known as 4-stable) from March 8.  ftpd uses 100%
cpu and memory use grows until the kernel runs out of swap space and starts
killing processes.  This was an ftp connection with a regular username and
password, in an average home directory.

M.D.





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