Subject: Re: Fwd: inetd DoS exploit
To: Emre Yildirim <emre@srengineering.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/26/2001 15:11:56
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 04:44:21PM -0600, Emre Yildirim wrote:
> I got this in the mail today.
> 
> Is there a way to fix/prevent this?
> (it killed my ftp server, NetBSD 1.5S)

Ah, no, I take that back.  It causes:

Feb 26 15:08:56 trinity inetd[23383]: ftp/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated

Hm.