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Bug#778843: marked as done (ax25-node: should be replaced with UROnode)

Your message dated Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:29:24 -0400
with message-id <20150324192924.GB7025@flying-gecko.net>
and subject line not a bug, but a RFP (see bug #778839)
has caused the Debian Bug report #778843,
regarding ax25-node: should be replaced with UROnode
to be marked as done.

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Package: ax25-node
Version: (all)
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

The SIGQUIT routine fails to close the app leaving the IP sockets open and in
some cases DDOS the remote site if a user "ctrl-]+q" out of a telnet session.
Also the app fails to close and more can be spawned by a crafty malicious user
thus bringing the system to a point of no memory available. I found this in
2005 with Barry K2MF and we incorporated a patch for MFNOS to prevent this from
attacking MFNOS.

Found this was the situation in ALL linux-based ax25 node packages. Patched
this in URONode and informed ax25-node upstream in 2007. No acknowledgement of
my email received to date.

Suggest replacing ax25-node with URONode for security reasons as other distros
have done.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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This bug report is really a request for a new package.  Bug #778839
requests the new package properly (without screaming a should replace b).

Pat

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