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Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity?

From: Thamer Al-Harbash <tmh () whitefang com>
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:46:28 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, 3APA3A wrote:

Dear bugtraq () securityfocus com,

Well,  we all blame Microsoft in insecure default configuration... Isn't
it time to clean outdated code in Unix?


This has been a known problem for quite a while. In fact
D. J. Bernstein already solved it with tcpserver:

http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html

If you look at the bottom he points out pretty much what you
pointed out.

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Current thread:

11 years of inetd default insecurity? 3APA3A (Sep 06)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Thamer Al-Harbash (Sep 08)
  - Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Dan Stromberg (Sep 08)
    - Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Andres Kroonmaa (Sep 10)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Dagmar d'Surreal (Sep 08)
  - Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Mike Hoskins (Sep 09)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Mike Tancsa (Sep 08)
  - Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Sep 10)
    - Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Greg A. Woods (Sep 10)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Dan Harkless (Sep 09)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Darren Pilgrim (Sep 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Paul Szabo (Sep 08)

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