Re: Possible DoS against inetd in Solaris

["Larry W. Cashdollar" <lwc () VAPID DHS ORG>]

Make sure you have all your sun patches installed.  There was a problem
with nmap (after a scan) crashing the system after you sent a HUP signal
to inetd.  I think it was called the recursive mutex bug.  This was for
Solaris 2.6. Maybe 2.7 not sure.

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, El Nahual wrote:

> The problem I see at least on Linux is that the server NEVER gets up
> ... that's the problem, by default it dies on 40 tries in less than 1
> minute (look Am3ntiA I actually took the time to read the faq before
> issuing something stupid!) but my problem is that it does not come
> back....
>
> That is the rpoblem I see on linux ..
>
> Tested on RH 5.2
> Mandrake 7.0 5.3
> RH 6.0
> Slack 4.0 7.0
>
> like I said I tried on solaris and it didn't work ....
>
> El Nahual
>
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Vitaly McLain wrote:
>
> > Before advisories get issued and such, could you guys check your logs to
> > make sure inetd/xinetd isn't blocking those connects on purpose?
> >
> > Vitaly McLain
> > twistah () datasurge net
> > twistah @ OPN & EfNet
> > "If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you."
> >        - Ralph Nader