Re: Naptha - New DoS

[Carl-Johan Bostorp <ctor () KRIXOR XY ORG>]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, White Vampire wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> [ Misc Info ]
>
>       I find it rather odd that this has yet to be mentioned on
> Bugtraq.

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.

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


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