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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:34:08 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd event -- possible security hole or DoS?
Message-ID:  <20010319233408.A15890@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010320001710.00d88950@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:19:15AM -0700
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010319172800.00cf9c60@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010319172800.00cf9c60@localhost> <20010319223615.B14837@xor.obsecurity.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010320001710.00d88950@localhost>

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:19:15AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 11:36 PM 3/19/2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> >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.
>=20
> 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.

Reproducing this on a properly-configured version of 4.2-STABLE would
probably be a minimum for this to be a useful lead.

Kris

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