BSDI tcpmux DOS

Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:22:36 -0400
From: Mark Schaefer <marks@SHELL.FLINET.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Subject: BSDI inetd crash

This is a serious bug in BSDI 3.1 servers.  One of my coworkers was
playing with the nmap utility which was mentioned here the other day, and
he managed to crash inetd on our servers.  We quickly duplicated the
attack against a Linux box running RedHat 4.2, and it did not happen.  I
tried again, myself, on a non-critical BSDI 3.1 server.  It happened
again.

The nmap command line used was (as a non-priviledged user):
./nmap -p 1-64000 -i <target host>

I notified BSDI and they suggested that I remove the "tcpmux" entry from
the /etc/inetd.conf file.  After doing this, and attempting the attack
again, it did not result in a crash of inetd.  It was also mentioned that
patch M310-009 should have fixed this.  I tried the attack again, with
this new patch, and without tcpmux commented out, and it still didn't
crash inetd.

I would recommend patching up to M310-009, or commenting out this servince
in tcpmux, which you should probably do anyway unless you know you're
using it.

Nmap can be obtained from:  http://www.dhp.com/~fyodor/nmap



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