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DOS attack: Linux inetd.. (fwd)

It seems we are vulnerable to the below:

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John Goerzen
Southwind Internet Access, Inc. Technical Support
Business e-mail: jgoerzen@southwind.net

Personal e-mail: jgoerzen@complete.org
Wichita State University e-mail: jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux    <http://www.debian.org>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 14:19:50 +0100
From: moOd <mood@INVALID.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Subject: Linux inetd..

Description:

  I've found that inetd on (*atleast*) Debian distribution of LiNUX crashes
  when port 13 (daytime) / port 37 (time) is "half-open scanned"..


  Half-open scanning means that you:

    1) send SYN
    2) if reply is SYN|ACK, send RST  = port is listening
    3) if reply is RST                = port is not listening


  I'm not skilled enough to write the code-piece for you to test this out,
  but most of the new portscanner include this type of scanning method.
  (scantcp 1.32, sirc, etc.)


Quick & dirty workaround:

  Comment out daytime & time services from /etc/inetd.conf and restart inetd.



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  / moOd [@invalid.org]


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