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netkit-inetd / time (port 37) related issues?



Hi,

I just noticed that my machine got hammered (well, at 25kbps) with tons of 
port 37 connections for the past week.

Anything known regarding recent security problems with that? I run a 
quite-up-to-date testing machine, and I follow the Debian DSAs and take 
action where the lacking security support for testing requires me to do 
so, so it shouldn't be a known old problem.

To be careful, I have now reinstalled kernel, libc, psutils, coreutils and 
sysvinit from known-good sources. Newest chkrootkit Debian pkg doesn't 
detect anything, and after reboot the traffic has stopped.

(Oh, yes: time service has also be disabled in inetd.conf)

cheers
-- vbi


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