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Possible DoS against inetd in Solaris
Hi, I stumbled upon something that looks like a bug in inetd on Solaris. If a Solaris box is portscaned by nmap with -T Insane option very quick scan daemons that are started by inetd stop responding. That is you can connect to them, connection get accepted, by they don't display any banner or...
Data General DG/UX 5.4 - inetd Service Exhaustion Denial of Service
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1071/info A Denial of service DoS attack is possible with the default version of inetd distributed with Data General's DG/UX operating system. By performing a scan utilizing nmap's OS detection option -O, the inetd daemon is put in a state where it will n...