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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:19:15 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd event -- possible security hole or DoS?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010320001710.00d88950@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20010319223615.B14837@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010319172800.00cf9c60@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010319172800.00cf9c60@localhost>

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At 11:36 PM 3/19/2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:

>I can't even begin to remember all of the TCP, kernel and application
>bugs fixed in the 2 1/2 years since 2.2.8.  There are probably a
>number of ways someone could have caused something like this.

I guess what I'm concerned about is that I don't know if it's
an intentional DoS and/or if it's present in current versions.
I'll try to do some testing to see if I can lock up inetd
on that system again via finger.

--Brett


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