Re: wu-ftpd attack ???

[David <djdave () bigpond net au>]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:06:10PM -0500, Aaron D. Lewis wrote:
> > I'm experiencing a situation where wu-ftpd wu-ftpd-2.6.1-20 on Red Hat 
> > 7.2 2.4.18-18.7.x is getting broken by some specific type of scan (I 
> > think). When this happens, wu-ftpd just stops responding to connection 
> > requests but port 21 is still listening... <snip>
>
> Well, I can't tell you what is happening, but I can tell you what is not.
>
> As you describe above, wu-ftpd is at no fault. Looks like this is a
> problems on xinetd.

Indeed it does.  New xinetd RPMs for Red Hat 7.x should be out soon.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76146

David.


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