Re: rpc.mountd vulnerabilities

From: Alan Brown (alanat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 29 1998 - 16:13:42 PDT

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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, morex .- wrote:

> I was talking to someone on irc last night after I made my post about the
> mountd exploit and they said they had a exploit that would kill inetd.
> I did not get the stuff but I had him try it on 3 of my linux systems and
> it did work..

Is there any compelling reason why inetd shouldn't have a
non-daemonise switch so that it can be run out of inittab for
systems which have that facility?

AB

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