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Updated xinetd packages for Red Hat
Posted by philipp on: 05/13/2003 10:28 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
Red Hat has released updated xinetd packages
Xinetd is a 'master server' that is used to to accept service connection requests and start the appropriate servers.
Because of a programming error, memory was allocated and never freed if a connection was refused for any reason. An attacker could exploit this flaw to crash the xinetd server, rendering all services it controls unavaliable.
Because of a programming error, memory was allocated and never freed if a connection was refused for any reason. An attacker could exploit this flaw to crash the xinetd server, rendering all services it controls unavaliable.
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