Published: 16/08/1999 Updated: 09/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 505

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A default configuration of in.identd in SuSE Linux waits 120 seconds between requests, allowing a remote malicious user to conduct a denial of service.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/587/info In the inetdconf under certain distributions of SuSE Linux the inidentd daemon is started with the -w -t120 option This means that one identd process waits 120 seconds after answering the first request to answer the next request If a malicious remote attacker starts a large number of ident requ ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/587 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19463/

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