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Denial of service vulnerability in xinetd

Package(s):

xinetd

CVE #(s):

Created:

August 14, 2002

Updated:

December 3, 2002

Description:

A file descriptor leak into services started from xinetd may be used, by programs it stats, to crash xinetd. Xinetd is a replacement for the BSD derived inetd.

Alerts:

Red Hat	RHSA-2002:196-19	2002-12-02
Red Hat	RHSA-2002:196-09	2002-10-14
Mandrake	MDKSA-2002:053	2002-08-26
Gentoo	xinetd-20020814	2002-08-14
Debian	DSA-151-1	2002-08-13

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