Re: Naptha - New DoS

[White Vampire <whitevampire () mindless com>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:38:34PM +0100, Carl-Johan Bostorp(ctor () krixor xy org) wrote:
> >     I find it rather odd that this has yet to be mentioned on
> > Bugtraq.  

        I have since changed my mind.  I find it in poor taste.

> I don't. As the advisory itself says - the problem is ancient. Only new thing 
> seems to be someone finally sat down and did what everybody else thought of 
> (or had done but not released =)). More of a thing for security-incidents. 

        This concept is ancient, NAPTHA however has a new twist.  It
should be taken more seriously.

> I've been using xinetd for ages to have protection from this type of attack.

        inetd is not the only daemon affected by this attack.

Regards,
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