> From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
>>(Btw. for any services started from inetd there is a trivial way to
>>shut them down.)
>>
>
> Is this trivial way doable by a normal user? If so then this is a serious
> security bug.
It's an even more serious DoS problem otherwise.
And btw even sendmail can be convinced to shut down, quite trivially --
just cause the load to go over the limit set in sendmail.cf and sendmail
will close its socket. Then you are free to bind to it if the port is over
1023.
Ion
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