innd DOS attack reported

Bdale Garbee bdale at gag.com
Tue Jul 25 08:58:10 UTC 2000


A Debian GNU/Linux user has pointed out that innd can be made to consume lots
of RAM by opening a connection to it and feeding it lots of bytes without any
commands.  Testing for and handling this case explicitly might be worthwhile? 

Full details at

	http://bugs.debian.org/66638

Bdale



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