From owner-freebsd-security Tue Apr 13 15: 2:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA78E157D6 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:02:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA14707; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 00:00:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id AAA49275; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 00:00:16 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 00:00:16 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Max Booth Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd problems Message-ID: <19990414000015.B48840@bitbox.follo.net> References: <37120E9B.1AE1FD8D@ukonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <37120E9B.1AE1FD8D@ukonline.net>; from Max Booth on Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:17:47PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:17:47PM +0100, Max Booth wrote: > Hi all, > > Reciently, since the load on one of our FreeBSD 3.0 systems has been > increasing I keep on getting the following errors when attempting > connections to the system: > > Escape character is '^]'. > inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. > inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. > Connection closed by foreign host. > > The only thing using inetd now is telnetd, so I can't emagine that it's > due to inetd being under too much preassure. > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? This is due to a bug in the signal handler in inetd. This has been fixed in FreeBSD-stable (ie, 3.1). It was fixed mid-january, IIRC. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message