Re: wu-ftpd attack ???

From: David (djdave@bigpond.net.au)
Date: 11/27/02

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From: David <djdave@bigpond.net.au>
To: Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@tisbrasil.com.br>

    On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
    > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:06:10PM -0500, Aaron D. Lewis wrote:
    > > I'm experiencing a situation where wu-ftpd wu-ftpd-2.6.1-20 on Red Hat
    > > 7.2 2.4.18-18.7.x is getting broken by some specific type of scan (I
    > > think). When this happens, wu-ftpd just stops responding to connection
    > > requests but port 21 is still listening... <snip>
    >
    > Well, I can't tell you what is happening, but I can tell you what is not.
    >
    > As you describe above, wu-ftpd is at no fault. Looks like this is a
    > problems on xinetd.

    Indeed it does. New xinetd RPMs for Red Hat 7.x should be out soon.

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76146

    David.

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