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RHSA-2001:109: Updated xinetd package available for Red Hat Linux 7 and 7.1

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RHSA-2001:109: Updated xinetd package available for Red Hat Linux 7 and 7.1

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/29/2001
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/28/2005
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

A security audit has been done by Solar Designer on xinetd, and the results are now being made available as a preemptive measure.

A security audit has been done by Solar Designer on xinetd, and the results are now being made available as a preemptive measure. Also, memsetting too much memory to 0 would eventually lead to segfaults when executing services. This internal bug was fixed.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-xinetd

References

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