[CLA-2003:782] Conectiva Security Announcement - xinetd

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : xinetd SUMMARY : Fixes for memory leaks and other...

Xinetd 2.3.10 Memory Leaks

BACKGROUND ----------- Xinetd is a popular inetd replacement. Shortly after the 2.3.9 release in September 2002, it was realized that xinetd was leaking file descriptors. That problem turned out to be that file descriptors were not always being closed whenever a connection was rejected. 2.3.10 wa...