Re: Running xinetd 2.3.12

Marco Di Benedetto <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi all.
>       A few days ago I've downloaded the sources of xinetd v2.3.12, and
> I'm having a few problems running it.
>
> First of all, the built executable. I'm running xinetd on a pentium-based
> linux box with a 2.4.17 kernel (sources built with the same).

You know that this kernel has several exploitable bugs (DoS and
information leaks)? Update unless some vendor applied all available
security fixes (some as fresh as a couple of days old).

Other than that, can you run xinetd under gdb and obtain a stack
backtrace when it sees SIGSEGV?

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Matthias Andree