gpg /netstat problems

From: Richard Cross (richard.cross@freeserve.com)
Date: 05/02/02 

From: Richard Cross <richard.cross@freeserve.com>
To: focus-sun@securityfocus.com
Date: 02 May 2002 08:35:42 +0100

I noticed GnuPG wasn't working properly recently - it was hanging while
trying to encrypt a file or when generating a new key. Ran truss on it
and found that it forks a separate process which turned out to be:

netstat -p -f inet

and it was hanging because it couldn't resolve the addresses, however
that aside...

... anyone know why it needs to do this and whether or not this can be
disabled? Could it potentially be a security risk? (FYI it was the
packaged version for Solaris 8 from Sunfreeware).

Rick Cross.

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