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Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity?

From: Thamer Al-Harbash (tmhwhitefang.com)
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 20:46:28 CDT

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, 3APA3A wrote:

> Dear bugtraqsecurityfocus.com,
>
> Well, we all blame Microsoft in insecure default configuration... Isn't
> it time to clean outdated code in Unix?

This has been a known problem for quite a while. In fact
D. J. Bernstein already solved it with tcpserver:

http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html

If you look at the bottom he points out pretty much what you
pointed out.

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